Word: carp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come off the shells with gasoline. But it's hard to tell which was worse, the water or the people walking along side. A thin breakwall separated the canal from the river and Lake Erie, and oftentimes, fishermen would cast a line into the canal, although only disease-ridden carp could still live in it. Once, during a race, a fisherman cast his line clear over a boat and while he was still within shouting distance the air was full of invectives between the coxswain and the fisherman. In another race an oarsman was hit in the forehead...
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, and thus do we .. .by indirections find directions...
...pollution is prominent among them. Most of the Charles's fish are dead, for example, although there are still occasional schools of goldfish to startle the unwary passerby. "The first ones to die are the nicest ones, really," Noss said mournfully. "Trout need five parts oxygen per million, and carp need only point five parts. And down at the bottom of the Lower Basin, it's constant by now, really, there's almost no oxygen at all, so there are no organisms to clean...
...good WYF was ther, Mr. Mitchell's owne, Wel koude she carp upon hir telephone. She lyk to tel the papers, quote-unquote: "Dorst noon can mak myn housband a scapegoate...
Nothing lends the show quite so much strength as Stephen Sondheim's score. It is a beauty, his best yet in an exceedingly distinguished career. The prevailing waltz meter is more suggestive of fin de siècle Vienna than the Scandinavian north, but why carp? In a show almost without choreography, Sondheim's lyrics are nimble-wilted dances. Literate, ironic, playful, enviably clever, altogether professional, Stephen Sondheim is a quicksilver wordsmith in the grand tradition of Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Lorenz Hart. There are three standout numbers. One is Liaisons (Gingold), a lament that courtesans...