Word: carp
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...life, I have killed only one fish and still cringe at the experience. I was eight and at the supermarket with my parents. They wanted carp for dinner, and I wanted the live one from the tank so my sister and I could play with it in the bathtub at home. At dinner-time, my mother took out the carp and handed me a knife. I put it on the cutting board in the kitchen. The gills moved up and down, making the kind of sound your mouth makes upon opening when it is very dry. Its eyes, surely those...
...Clinton Administration officials often tell critics not to carp but to offer alternatives to the policies they disagree with. Clinton himself was saying that last week. In a speech to a convention of union members, he admitted he didn't like to use force but said that he had to do it. Americans would have to decide, he said, whether they agree with him that the nation, as the only superpower, "ought to be standing up against ethnic cleansing." And again in his formal speech from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, he put the humanitarian issue first. Sooner...
...measured march to decode the human genome, in short, has turned into a headlong horse race--and the rivalry isn't always polite. The federal genome project, critics carp privately, has been shockingly mismanaged and is sorely lacking in vision. Private efforts, counter some in the public project, are pirate operations that seek to lock critical segments of God's genomic handiwork behind a barricade of patents. Beyond that, they say, speeding up the pace of discovery could lead to slapdash, incomplete results. "If this is the book of life," sniffs Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research...
...also paints some evocative scenes, capturing the Charles from a rower's perspective. While the typical student only hurries by the Charles, on her way somewhere else or maybe out for exercise, Lambert points out that rowers "in the shell occupy a liminal area between sky and water, between carp and cormorant...
...compensation: as the water drains out of the pond of contemporary art, as the belief in everlasting invention that was hard-wired into American expectations during the 1960s dwindles, small bass and medium carp are treated as potential Moby Dicks. Witness the California artist Charles Ray, 45, whose mid-career retrospective, curated by Paul Schimmel of Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, recently opened at New York City's Whitney Museum of American...