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RALPH MANNHEIM'S fresh translation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker with its Maurice Sendak illustrations is much more than a glitzy sugar and spice Christmas yarn it's a welcome return to textual accuracy. This season the perpetually smiling pecan masher's overly familiar ballet incarnation is finally stripped away to reveal the genuine handmade article from Germany...
...election was followed by a 1979 leftist coup, a bloody power struggle that resulted in an army takeover and the slaying of leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop on Oct. 19, 1983, six days later, there was a U.s. led invasion of the tiny, spice-producing nation...
...Blodgett Peel, everybody's happy. Diving Coach John Walker has a strong contingent of woman divers returning, and junior Dan Watson is fresh from a third place finish at the U.S. Olympic trials to spice up a men's squad that also gains freshman Tomas Gilmore, of Costa Rica and Deerfield Academy...
...what is there to offer the party faithful at the Dallas Convention Center and millions of television viewers? Desperate to add spice to their celebration of the Administration's first term, G.O.P. strategists briefly considered pumping up their mild ideological divisions into full-fledged floor battles. But the idea was eventually rejected as hokey. Says Washington Lobbyist William Timmons, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. Convention since 1968: "We will have a clean, crisply paced, well-managed demonstration of Republican unity... There will be some powerful messages, well presented. But whether anyone will listen-well...
...proficient at making pasta as Maggie is at concocting stories. The voluminous star runs a TV cooking show from the kitchen of her walk-up apartment in Brooklyn. When she brays, "We'll be right back," the actual show also breaks for a commercial. But the spice of the device is soon overwhelmed by Mama's overcooked material. The failure is not the fault of Lila Kaye, late of the Royal Shakespeare Company (she was Mrs. Squeers and Mrs. Crummies in Nich olas Nickleby). Kaye plays Mama with manic élan, but she is giving flesh - kilos...