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...roster of current or recent offerings on stages around the U.S. is as remarkable for its diversity as for its proficiency. Santeiro's Mixed Blessings, an adaptation of Tartuffe as a loving lampoon of nouveau-riche Cuban Americans, is the sprightliest and most polished, and it proves the axiom that art has the most universal appeal when it is the most specific. The script is remarkably faithful to Moliere's original in plot and characters, yet entirely contemporary -- a duality hilariously hinted at, before the curtain rises, when the sound system tinkles out Guantanamera on a harpsichord. A Cuban emigre...
...Maltese Falcon appears in Buried Caesars (Mysterious Press; 179 pages; $15.95), in which Stuart M. Kaminsky's sleuth Toby Peters is hired by General Douglas MacArthur on a matter of national security and gets a helping hand from Dashiell Hammett on a spree. The volume is one of the sprightliest in the series built around Peters but is overshadowed by A Cold Red Sunrise (Scribner's; 210 pages; $15.95), which features Kaminsky's other recurring detective, Soviet policeman Porfiry Rostnikov. That sly and assiduous investigator is dispatched to Siberia to look into the killing of another officer, who in turn...
...spellings are challenging, the pronunciation a little tricky, but it might be best to get used to these two names right now. They appear on the labels of some of the most intrepid clothes around, and they belong to two of the sprightliest newcomers anywhere on the fashion...
Going some place in a feverish hurry, though exactly where is the next question, a bay bullet called Spend A Buck streaked away with the Kentucky Derby last week, posting the third-sprightliest mile and a quarter (2:00 1/5) in 111 springs at Churchill Downs. Stephan's Odyssey finished second, more than five lengths behind, and the 6-to-5 favorite, Chief's Crown, was third. Far up the track, or at least it seemed so, came that old plug tradition, which may be losing ground even...
...that sets it apart from such charades as Lady Sings the Blues. Parks shows a careful eye for small evocative details on ragged stretches of back-country roads in Texas and Louisiana and for the full-dress promenade on Fannin Street, the wickedest thoroughfare in Shreveport and surely the sprightliest...