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...England, Italian and Asian feasts were served in the Cabot, Pforzheimer and Currier dining halls, respectively, offering goodies such as clam chowder, spaghetti and stir...
...form of toro sushi, an extra fatty version of the fish, highly prized in Japan for its supple texture, served over rice with a hint of wasabi. Sushi is all about the quality of the raw materials, and the toro at Fugakyu was as fresh as could be. Giant clam sushi, however, billed as the special of the day, was repellent and the one misfire of the night. It tasted like a gargantuan, fishy belly button...
...magical parallel world. The hero is that classic figure of children's literature, the semiabandoned child. Ethan Feld is 11. His mother has died of cancer. His loving but grieving father is absorbed now in perfecting his prize invention, a family dirigible. Father and son have recently moved to Clam Island, a cloud-covered stretch of land in the Puget Sound where Ethan is the worst player on a hapless Little League team...
...Burdleburbleslurpleslurpleburbleburdleslurp," said the clam, more or less...
...sheer fantasy is one reason he wrote Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax; 500 pages), the kind of book that features a motherly Sasquatch, some intrepid kids, numerous giants and "werefoxes," and several cliff-hanger baseball games on which the fate of the whole world just happens to hinge, plus a giant, prognosticating clam...