Word: codding
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...sexually molested a 14-year-old boy, "I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. My reaction was, I think, 'You're s____ing me.'" When we discussed his 19-year hiatus from the active priesthood, a time when he lived in Boston and in Cape Cod's Yarmouthport, where he ran a bed-and-breakfast inn, he volunteered answers to questions I had not asked. "I maintained my celibacy because I believe in that, for me," he told me. "I remained loyal to the Lord, to my faith...
Indeed, there is a passionate and idiosyncratic center to Cool & Crazy. The men, aged 29 to 96, have let Jensen's cameras get close, capturing their views on life and love in bathtub and bedroom interviews, at a feast of cod tongue and potatoes, at the local social security office (which "employs" much of the choir) and on a rollicking concert trip to Russia. They love the simple things that give their lives meaning - family, singing and home in an otherworldly region that is as far from Oslo as Oslo is from Rome. "Perhaps what you seek is in front...
...last five years, McCarty has performed with the professional Cape Cod Opera Company and—as an added bonus—has become the inspiration for an all-singing animated children’s television show...
...Kurlansky says his interest in salt grew out of his last book, "Cod," since that fish only became an important trade item when it began to be preserved with salt. In the course of his research, he became friends with several "salt historians," who have made the common rock their lives' work. It's not surprising to learn that Americans eat more salt than anyone else, and probably too much. Kurlansky, a former newspaperman at the International Herald Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has had to endure a certain number of quipsters who want to know whether his next book...
...until the trip we thought would take two-and-a-half hours had taken about four, did we learn that the bus driver was “new.” She had also been looking at the map upside down and had driven us very close to Cape Cod. Our anticipation had fermented into plain anger as we realized the tailgates and opening kickoff were all happening without us. As the frazzled bus driver stepped off the bus to “recollect her thoughts’” we talked seriously about hijacking the whole operation, locking...