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...beginning to flag a bit. "When the President gets going on Christmas," sighs one weary aide, "there's no stopping him." Well, not quite. When Mrs. Nixon was showing her husband all the preparations, the President tried to break off and eat a piece of a huge gingerbread house put together by Assistant Chef Hans Raffert for the State Dining Room. Said Pat: "Don't you dare!" (He didn't.) Since Nixon does not enjoy carving, the Christmas turkey will arrive at his table presliced...
...entertaining-all these have made him the leading U.S. comic playwright for more than a decade. But like the clown with the yen to play Hamlet, Simon has had the urge, and been critically urged, to try his hand at more serious drama. The result is The Gingerbread Lady, a schizoid play in which the dramatist is so busy applying plasters of wit to woefully bruised psyches that the evening is doubly robbed, both of honest hurt and buoyant humor...
...from the outside. Laughter is a form of incessant motion in Simon's work. It is a self-protective device by which his characters dodge the bullets of real pain. Simon uses a joke both to ward off hurt and to assuage it. In a play like The Gingerbread Lady, this use of laughter vitiates any deep emotion the moment after it is aroused...
White-marble slave girls languish alongside posturing tragedy heroines and cherubic children. Emanuel Leutze's classic, Washington Crossing the Delaware, looms in its full-size 264-sq.-ft. version. Tiffany lamps and cut-glass bowls of dazzling intricacy vie with gingerbread mantelpieces. At first glance the Metropolitan Museum's gargantuan exhibition of 19th century American art, architecture and decoration seems about as serious an undertaking as a rainy afternoon spent in grandmother's attic. On second look, it proves to be a well-planned, scholarly survey of an oft-disparaged, still underestimated century...
...Like most teenagers, young singers had sweet tooths. One sang "Gingerbread" and used "Blue Betty" as a flip side...