Word: crab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time collecting crustaceans down by the wharf, and he takes her to what she would probably call a "real classy joint." But Suzy's a hooker, albeit a fledgling one, and she's not quite sure how to behave. The maitre d' is wearing black tie, and Doc orders crab, a difficult food under any circumstances. Fighting panic. Suzy falls back on an age-old rule: when in doubt, move slowly. Striking a pose of quiet mystery, she eyes her partner and carefully mimics his crab-eating etiquette, staying at least two bites behind him. When dinner is over...
...paters who can think of nothing more socially responsible to do with their millions than throw garish, three-month-long coming-out parties [Dec. 21], I'll bet they're all supplyside, trickle-down, cut-school-lunch-program Republicans. What about the poor? Let them eat leftover crab souffl...
Dinner is a cozy affair, with crab soufflé, lamb, two wines, crêpes, champagne. Bishop tinkles his glass and affectionately tells everyone how Muni had set the world record in attending schools no one had ever heard of. Like many a deb before her, Mimi is not obsessed with academe. She favors tennis, jogging and "a lot of needlepoint." She spent a year at a school high enough in the Swiss Alps to ensure that everyone majored in skiing, and she also attended Alfred University in upstate New York, where she had heard that they had a great...
...Crab claws, beef tenderloins and breakfast eggs were stacked in the galley...
...cosmic consciousness and produces more comedy than insights: "On one of the fishing boats in the cove, a young down-islander discovered he had the wrong-size replacement batteries for his transistor and flung them angrily into the water; they sank forty feet and nearly hit a horseshoe crab." The narrative eye that watches this descent is necessarily distracted from all the other goings-on in the world. Mooney sees the problem and plays with it entertainingly. He also convincingly portrays a kind of ambitious anxiety that can erupt at any time in the here...