Word: crab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into a hilltop garden of crab-apple trees and white roses, with rows of fruit trees and swaths of delphiniums. "You may plant something you will never see yourself." He marvels at a palm tree he discovered in Florida, which erupts into blossom only once in its lifetime. "A garden gives you a sense of continuity...
...training jobs, Pence took over as chef in 1987. Now she turns out dishes that are as delicious as they are pretty, among them a colorful spinach salad with warm duck and orange sections topped with a rosette of Japanese red pickled ginger, and mellow ravioli filled with crab meat and hazelnuts. Born in Pasco, Wash., and trained at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., Pence believes that Seattle is just the right size to support experimental restaurants. Says she: "It's a city that is small town enough but still not in the boonies...
...oysters such as Hamma Hamma, Penn Cove, Willapa Bay, Kumamoto, Shoalwater Bay and Olympia. Some varieties will be served raw with a raspberry peppercorn mignonette sauce -- a specialty at Fullers. At the sparkling Cafe Sport, Tom Douglas, 29, sautes oysters with chili spices and turns out fluffy Dungeness crab cakes and seductive broiled Japanese Kasu cod with an "ocean salad" of marinated seaweed...
...perform all the latest dances -- the Madison, the Continental, the Pony -- and are local heroes to every adolescent. Chief among these starlets is Amber Von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick), a snooty princess whose dad (Sonny Bono) is the "richest man in East Baltimore" and whose mom (Debbie Harry), Miss Soft Crab of 1945, pours all her ambition into Amber. Every afternoon the pouty miss must practice the cha-cha and the Mashed Potato under Mom's eagle eye. "I want you to get more close-ups on that show," Mom admonishes, "or I'm sending you to Catholic school!" Eeuuuu...
After the tour group registers at the Thang Loi (victory) hotel in Nha Trang, a block from the sea, there are two days to body surf in the warm, gentle swells, drink coconut milk and eat traditional lau soup and spicy crab, as well as view the massive brick Cham temples dating from the 10th century. Following dinner, group activity generally ceases, allowing for solitary strolls or modest forays to local markets, where simple good handicrafts and fresh fruit are available...