Word: catfishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sometime Thing, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', Bess, You Is My Woman Now, It Ain't Necessarily So-would be enough to explain it. But Porgy and Bess approaches authentic American opera: its very story is picturesquely American and unblushingly operatic. The crammed, violent life of Catfish Row inspired George Gershwin to something beyond show music, though it is still the show music, after some 20 years, that seems inspired...
Better not look IN the river, though. It will take all the enchantment out of the evening. Whitebellied decaying catfish line the bank, bloated and poisoned by the polluted waters. The waves from a passing motorboat slop over the slimy rocks along the bank into a brown froth. It isn't pleasant...
...came over him gradually. When he was packed off to Phillips Exeter Academy from his home near Catfish Creek in Iowa, he became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
...crucifix fish, a variety of sea catfish, whose skull bones form a crucifix. 3) As camouflage against enemies. 4) In a small area of northern Michigan...
...machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under the Department of the Interior) where catfish, a man-eating piranha and a two-headed turtle sport and splash and amuse small boys...