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...Newsman Douglas Kiker uses Cape Cod in winter as the setting for Murder on Clam Pond (Random House; 228 pages; $15.95), in which a broken-down former newspaper reporter finds a new hometown, renewed professional vigor and the love of a much younger woman, all through probing the murder of his next-door neighbor. What lifts the book above the ordinary is a detailed and subtle portrait of the dark side of charity: the victim is the richest woman in town, and the chief suspects are a group of bright young adults whom she singled out for her largesse...
Scrod is a catch-all term for any fish fillet that becomes white when cooked. It usually refers to cod or haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been reconstituted. Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found...
Mailer, 63, is in his element in more ways than one. Based on his best- selling 1984 novel, Tough Guys Don't Dance, the film is set in the autumnal gloom of the Cape Cod resort that he has frequented for years. In fact, aptly enough, the director's brick-faced home has been taken over to serve as the onscreen abode of his protagonist Tim Madden, a onetime boxer and womanizing writer who wakes up one morning with a case of alcoholic amnesia and the vague apprehension that he may have killed his wife. Due for release next fall...
...will give Gorbachev a chance to further a long-standing Soviet foreign policy goal of wooing Iceland out of NATO. The Kremlin has been more than cordial, backing Iceland on international matters even when it was not in Moscow's immediate interest to do so. During the so-called cod wars of the 1950s and '70s, when Iceland gradually enlarged its territorial control of fishing rights to 200 miles, the Soviets protested but nevertheless became the first major nation to recognize the new limits. In return, Iceland expanded its trade with Moscow and now provides the Soviets with about...
...dummy in the motel corridor said to another. "I'm Oscar from Cape Cod. Where are you from...