Word: crab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picking coins out of the fountains. But Writer John McPhee spent ten days there and only part of the nights and he ate-as the editorial business manager will discover-without dipping a finger in a fountain. In fact, he ate his way through such delights as soft-shelled crab on a bun, walnut fried Boston sole, partridge with grapes of Almeria, banana dogs, smoked eel of the river Tagus, Kambing Masak Bugis and A jam Panggang-and one ham on rye to go. Followed, on occasion, by antacid tablets...
Ipousteguy sculpts with a sure sense of balance and a sharp eye for basic paradoxes and brutal ironies, e.g., The Crab and the Bird which captures in one movement the rapport between crawling and flying. Fourteen black bronzes. Through April...
...SOMETHING WILD"-Stone, 48 East 86th. Three avant-gardians, each doing what he knows best. Apple Grower George Wardlaw sculpts and paints apples-green, delicious, crab, rotten and otherwise; ex-Mink Farmer Joseph Kurhajec makes fetishes of ferocity from blowtorched sheepskin, muskrat pelts, ram horns and chicken feathers; Rugmaker Dorothy Grebenak hand-weaves tapestries of U.S. Treasury bills, Con Edison manhole covers, even a nubby facsimile of a Gordon's gin label. Through...
...Crab...
...first serious project with the new antenna was begun early this past summer. Dennis N. Downes '65 and Michael P. Hughes, Dr. Maxwell's research associate at the station, observed the passage of the solar corona in front of the Crab Nebula. In late June the Crab Nebula, the gaseous remnants of a star which exploded in 1054, was in the daytime sky near...