Word: honeyed
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...fantasy is anodyne or idiotic, the Philadelphia Zoo's new Treehouse seems particularly fetching. A team of architects, engineers, sculptors and tinkerers spent four years turning an 1877 antelope shed into a vivid little natural-history funhouse, designing the scores of objects from scratch. A giant honeycomb smells of honey; from dark corners come recorded frog croaks and bird songs. The science is implicit: there is not a sign or label in the place...
...adjunct retirement home and playland. Many have bought apartments for their mainland relatives, who then obtain permission from Chinese authorities to move there. Some 270,000 people from Hong Kong stream in every week to visit and sight-see. Two of the most popular stops: Sea World and Honey Lake amusement park, which features a monorail, Ferris wheel and double-loop roller coaster. In 1984, tourism and retail sales accounted for one-third of the zone's $666 million revenues. Even the industry that has sprung up is unimpressive. Instead of attracting the high-tech companies that Peking hoped...
...playwrights. His glimpse of backstage pandemonium, Noises Off, was a Broadway hit two seasons ago. Seven earlier scripts have been produced, most of them in London and by companies in Seattle, Dallas, Washington and New Haven. His dark comedy Benefactors is the Broadway season's most acclaimed play. Wild Honey, Frayn's bold adaptation of the young Anton Chekhov's Platonov, packed the house at London's National Theater and is due in the U.S. this fall. And in March, Frayn's first film, a rueful comedy called Clockwise, opens in Lon don. Typical of Frayn, who has "always adored...
...huge trade show for their captive audience of some 2,000 journalists. The basketball court in the gymnasium of a local high school was transformed into the "Iceland Center," complete with a generous spread of local delicacies (herring, smoked lamb and skyr, which is said to taste like honey-flavored yogurt). Outside the press center, half a dozen honey-colored Icelandic ponies pranced in a light rain while their blue-blazered riders carried U.S., Soviet and Icelandic flags on long poles. The government also arranged a three-hour fishing excursion and a free dinner at the country's largest disco...
...right," she hurriedly reassured everyone. "I just wanted to liven things up." She regained her seat, and Horowitz put a protective arm around her. "This is why I did that," said the First Lady, smiling at Horowitz and accepting a gallant Old World hand kiss as guests clapped. "Honey," riposted the President, "I told you to do it only if I didn't get any applause...