Start just as if you were carving a jack-o'-lantern: cut a circle around the stem, then pull up on the stem and discard it.
GREEN LANTERN EXTENDED CUT ($34.99 BluRay combo or $28.98 DVD; Warner Bros).
About an inch below the top of the pumpkin's "shoulders," about where it would be cut to carve a jack-o'-lantern, slice a lid from top of pumpkin, and set it aside.
Kitschy paper lanterns swing from the ceiling.
By the light cast by the rising full moon, I can make out the tops of the Saint Elizabeth hills in the distance and the dirt track that leads down to our table – a short stroll down a lantern-lit path, cut through a field of shoulder-high yam vines.
* I'm fascinated by ice sculptures, jack-o-lanterns, and radishes cut to look like flowers, so I enjoyed this video showing how someone carving roses out of a watermelon.
Kara Walker, the most prominent and cogent modern practitioner of this old form, is represented with a rotating magic lantern and a small cut-paper work.
The flowers are lantern-like, pinched and cut into a "V" at the lip, with their stalks projecting alternately up the stalk.
A bronze ring, suspended from the ceiling by bronze rods, supports an urn-shaped lamp mechanism and four glass lanterns from which cut-glass tinklers dangle.
The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, a clean-cut, lantern-jawed fellow in the best Hollywood traditions, should arrange for it to be done.
He will also offer throw pillows made of organic cotton, recycled-aluminum candlesticks and drinking glasses and votive-candle lanterns fashioned from cut-off wine and water bottles.
