Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shake, Bake and Bite...
...BITE THE BULLET...
...current in the channels is fast, and the wrong combination of tide and wind can raise a lumpy seven-foot sea. Yet no great crises occur: the snorkeling on the coral (especially in the Tobago Cays, an underwater reserve) is among the best in the Caribbean; jack and pompano bite in the shallows, the sun shines all day and plops into the ocean with a green flash straight out of a tourist leaflet; and on island after island the beaches are empty, not yet speckled with condominiums. Privacy is the reward of bareboating-not to mention a new and addictive...
...West Africa it is known as dash, in Latin America as la mordida (the bite), in Italy la bustarella (the little envelope). By whatever name, bribery and associated tactics-outright payoffs to clerks and customs inspectors, "contributions" to political parties, the hiring of government officials as "consultants" -have long been accepted in many countries as the normal, natural way to get any business done. U.S. companies operating overseas must somehow adjust to that atmosphere. But the biggest scandal in American business right now is that too many seem to have become a part...
...sister in crime Velma Kelly (Chita Rivera) do their solos and duets. They pace the show with spunk incarnate. The chorus is jazzily bacchanalian, and Patricia Zipprodt's eye-riveting costumes swirl right out of a decadent Brechtian Berlin. Chicago is a cinch to take a bite out of the Big Apple...