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Marty Seigmeister, Dining hall manager, said a gymnasium, site of a planned Thanksgiving feast, will be "rather charming" with some decorations. "Perhaps a couple of papier-mache turkeys will be strung from the ceiling," he added...
...Papier-mâché roses decked the dusty streets of the capital. Free bouillon and clairin-soup and rum-were distributed to the populace. But for most Haitians there was little to celebrate. Not only is the island nation the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, but for 22 years it has chafed under a succession of Duvalier dictatorships. Accordingly, some 55,000 Haitian "boat people" have made the 800-mile crossing to Florida, most of them as illegal immigrants. Unlike the Cubans recently arrived, the Haitians do not enjoy the status of political refugees...
...Viennese tried to act with aplomb, but there was considerable excitement at their city's being once again the center of world diplomacy. In the window of the world-famous Demel pastry shop, life-size likenesses of Carter and Brezhnev, made of papier-mache and marzipan, sat playing chess with marzipan missiles...
...latest project, with which he is "thrilled," is really a stage set. The Piazza d'ltalia fountain in New Orleans was commissioned as a celebratory space for the local Italian community. Moore dismissed all thought of "unitary" Tuscan directness and produced a razzmatazz design, a caprice resembling the gaudy, papier-mâché fair sets of Sicilian festa decor: fragments of Roman and Renaissance buildings around an 80-ft.-long stone map of Italy, like the masterpiece of a megalomaniac pastry cook. A fountain spurts out of Moore's Sicily, and its water runs down in rivulets representing...
...difficult indeed. Contenders in the Pentathlon had to work against the clock in proving to a computer their mastery of mythology, grammar and history. Nearby classrooms resounded to the ring of Ovid and Livy as the oratorical-minded -swathed in togas-declaimed before judges. Other judges trod carefully past papier-mache Pantheons and temples and an intricate mosaic depicting Medea fleeing to Athens, constructed from rice, grits and glue by a Tennessee contestant...