Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Costello: this breaststroker from Anchorage, Alaska is needed to fill the hole left by the graduation of Allison Greis...
Betty Fussell's I Hear America Cooking (Viking; $24.95), for example, carries the sonorous subtitle "A Journey of Discovery from Alaska to Florida -- the Cooks, the Recipes, and the Unique Flavors of Our National Cuisine." The problem is, her self-imposed "time frame" forces her to bypass the major immigrant groups of the late 19th and 20th centuries, among them Italians, Portuguese, Irish, Poles, Hungarians and Russians. What she really hears is a part of America cooking, and that is less than the title promises. And she goes on at great length with quotes from too many old American cookbooks...
...Piedmontese, it is readily apparent, defines himself exclusively by his work. The projects he describes are all outsize and difficult. "They never find oil in great places, say at San Remo or on the Costa Brava," is the way he begins a yarn about an offshore drilling rig in Alaska. The 250-meter tower was constructed horizontally on land, then towed out through cold, leaden seas and righted on site by flooding chambers at the base. On paper the task seemed simple; in practice it required judgment, skill and luck that almost defy imagination. Some Third World jobs defy common...
...ALASKA...
...Alaska's Senatorial election Republican incumbent Frank E. Murkowski faced a challenge from Democrat Glenn Olds. In the Governor's race. Arliss Sturgulewski, is squaring off against Republican Steve Cowper...