Word: crab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN; RED RACKHAM'S TREASURE; THE CRAB WITH THE GOLDEN CLAWS; KING OTTOKAR'S SCEPTRE. All written and illustrated by Hergé. All 62 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. Paperback $1.95 each. No one should be put off by Tintin himself, a boy in knickers with a muffin face and a tuft of hair rising to a curled peak like a Hokusai wave. Or by Captain Haddock, his bearded rum-sodden sidekick. Or by the small white dog, known as Milou in the original French versions of these stories, but for some...
...round the world, and many are being grabbed up like supermarket chicken specials. From the Atlantic Coast to the Canaries and the South Seas, many hundreds of islands can still be had. One reason is that aging owners, weary of battling for a living by scrambling for cod and crab, yearn for electric power, television, supermarkets, big cars and safe jobs. The island seeker, by contrast, hunts for a happy isle as pristine as those of Ulysses' dream, free of air pollution, real estate taxes, traffic jams, talk shows-and, he often finds out, devoid of plumbing or sewage...
...more out of the sea, he suggests, would be to wean people away from the 55 most popular species and get them to try some of the 30,000 to 40,000 underutilized varieties - an effort that might mean changing the names of such potential delicacies as the cancer crab and the rat-tailed flounder...
...preparation of bite-size pieces of tender beef broiled in front of you on an open stove. The third section, with standard restaurants and chairs, serves the traditional Western favorites--sukiyaki, teriyaki and tempura. All full meals are accompanied by a delicious Japanese soup called miso, sunemono, a crab meat salad, and all the green tea you can drink. Of the liquors, the sake and plum wine are particularly worth trying...
...free diet, thought he would have a companion again. "Oh, now, come on," Nixon urged the Congressman, who heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, "break down a bit." Nixon did. He had a couple of Scotches and water. Then there was a nip of light white Bordeaux with the crab claws and some hearty California Cabernet Sauvignon with the beef. Michel unlimbered his camera and took some snaps of the men on this special excursion into history...