The collection includes satirical cartoons from the wars, such as Deceiving The Invader As To The State Of The Tide, with a British beach scene arranged on tall stilts in the sea to trick the Germans into believing they are in the shallows, part of a series looking at ways to resist an invasion.
Photographers swarmed Surf Avenue to catch a glimpse of scores of comely sea creatures tricked out for this annual affair in clamshells and peek-a-boo fishnetting.
But rather than Patrick commanding all the Irish snakes into the sea, or tricking them somehow to slither beneath the waves (differences abound in the snake-ridding mechanisms ascribed to Patrick by those who mistakenly take the story literally), the story goes to the core of Patrick's sainthood and his core mission in Ireland.
We can only say for certain that these compositions by Gaitonde seem no more assured than, yet just as evocative as, mirages in a desert or at sea -- the tricks our eyes play when sensorily and nutritionally deprived.
But this sea has its own trick to play.
In Hoppe's universe, what to some might be a decorative object is to others a means of fending off crocodile attacks, sailing the seven seas and performing magic tricks.
When cute text messages get old, maybe sending bubbles across seas will do the trick. .
Roast cod ($17) is enlivened by a sharp parsley sauce, while an anchovy sauce does the trick with grilled sea bass ($19).
It may require a year to train a sea lion to perform a trick for the public.
He has other charges, of course, including but not limited to 13 puffins, three polar bears, two screech owls and old Breezy, the blind sea lion whose repertory of tricks once wowed them at Coney Island.
