Word: gingerbreads
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...setting was like a primitive painting. The main building in Hye is a combination post office-general store, and sports a false tin front pressed into gingerbread doodads and painted bright red, white and green. It was here in 1912, when he was four, recalled Lyndon, that he mailed his first letter-to his grandmother. "Larry O'Brien told me a few moments ago," he said archly, "that he is going out to find that letter and deliver it." Waxing philosophical, Johnson continued: "This little community represents to me the earliest recollections of the America that I knew when...
...Department Store decided to build a branch in Queens, N.Y., began to buy up all the property on a prime five-acre site. As quickly as anyone could say money, everyone had sold out - except for Mary Sondek, an elderly mother of six, who lived in a two-story gingerbread house on a 170-ft. by 50-ft. corner plot. Assuming that she was simply waiting until the price was right, Macy's went ahead with plans for a circular stadium-sized store whose perimeter would cut a small corner off the far end of the widow...
...Gingerbread on Pie Tins. Warrington Colescott, 43, etches on copper plates to which he glues other small, thin copper plates, collage style. When printed, the little plates emboss themselves more deeply into the paper than the ground plate, giving a perspective effect. "My favorite tool is a pair of airplane mechanic's shears," says Colescott, as he places cutouts on plates like gingerbread men on a pie tin, paradoxically creating foreground by millimeters more depth...
...anywhere from 4? to 490? an hour. Standard equipment in California's Santa Monica centers includes three large turtles, one small goat, five chickens, a horned toad, and a real leather saddle for sawhorse riding. Explaining a curriculum that includes such subtle delights as the baking of gingerbread, Director Docia Zavitkovsky says, "It is our job to introduce the world to these children...
Sidney Goldfarb offers a non-fiction counterpart to this literary gingerbread in his essay on Mexican braceros, an exploited captive labor force in southern California. We are glad to see this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense...