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...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...
Another Southern man of the people, Louisiana's Huey Long, would have found Helms incomprehensible. "Anybody that lets his public policies get mixed up with his religious prejudices," Long said, "is a goddamned fool." But Helms, heedless, faces the crowd this day in bleachers on the parched crab grass and delivers a sermon. He rhapsodizes about his pen pal Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dedication to freedom and Christianity. He flagrantly overstates Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century observations about American piety. Most of all, he praises God. "The Lord is speaking to us: 'I have need for thee.' To uphold...
...discovery of any of the following items on the beach: a dead crab; a dead crayfish; a Fresca bottle; a rock of three colors...
...them being food and wine, he and his wife set off on a recent Saturday evening for a Hemingway-style movable feast at Harborplace. It started with a drink and half a dozen North Carolina oysters at Shuckers Raw Bar in the Light Street Pavilion, followed by soft-shell crab par-migiano at the Big Cheese. Dinner was at the Taverna Athena, a Greek bistro in the Pratt Street Pavilion. Afterward came coffee and dessert at Tandoor and a nightcap at the Phillips Harborplace restaurant, where a banjo band plays until 11 p.m. "I never get tired of Harborplace," Rouse...