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...types troupes in to see the quack magician, Subtle, in search of it is they want--money, women, success. Dapper (Stephen Kolzak) is a boring dandy of an accountant who wants to be successful as a gambler; he winds up with a blindfold over his eyes, gingerbread stuffed in his mouth, and a dead mouse in his fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants...
THERE WAS ONE peculiar thing about many of these houses: curious ornaments under their eaves, a kind of gingerbread or lathed dowel work created when the houses were built in the eighties or nineties by, we fantasized, a craftsman who while still a boy had come back from Lee's troops--Lee's Miserables, as one good Baptist preacher punned--or Johnson's, retreating north from Sherman. (Sherman's Memoirs, horribly written, in a thick green volume with the general's stars on the spine, talks about approaching Exeter...
...year around the White House, détente has a second meaning: harmony between Pat Nixon and the kitchen. Last week relations were superb. Assistant Chef Hans Raffert fashioned a two-foot-high house out of 16½ pounds of gingerbread, mortared it together with six pounds of icing, shingled it with five pounds of cookies, and decorated it with gumdrops, a pound of hard candy and a dozen peppermint canes. An embassy child stood spellbound before this creation, reached out and broke off a piece of the front and popped it in his mouth...
...with happy incongruity in Ted dy Roosevelt's America, this Much Ado was all gingerbread and gingham. Benedick smoked cigars, wore a boater and, as he is played by Sam Waterston, looked like a dyspeptic basset hound...
Baseballs. Actually, there are enough attractions within Port-au-Prince to occupy tourists for the good part of a week. In the well-to-do Lyles district, there are the remarkable Victorian gingerbread houses, with intricately carved balustrades and spires, that are now commanding Stateside real estate prices. At the Iron Market, beneath a twin-spired iron roof, hundreds of Haitian entrepreneurs haggle with tourists over the price of wood carvings, sisal mats, dolls and hundreds of other products displayed in crowded stalls. There is the formal city hall, outlined at night with strings of glowing light bulbs...