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Word: blackfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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nothing draws sharks like a chum of blackfish, whale bits and blood. And for all those fishermen who think that sharks are good for nothing, he has one further word of advice: turn the tables on that shark. Eat it. Blue shark, he says, tastes "just like striped bass." And the mako and porbeagle are every bit as good as swordfish. In fact, smiles Mundus wisely, many a housewife has bought shark in her friendly neighborhood fish market at $1.60 a pound-as swordfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Shark-Eating Men | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...works that are neatly packaged in boxes, which Sir Herbert Read recently thought should be labeled "furniture" rather than "sculpture." Random objects glitter behind glass in the work of Joseph Cornell and Mary Bauermeister; even Louise Nevelson's newest darkling orts of woodwork are kept as purely as blackfish in glass bowls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Era of the Object | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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