Word: crabbed
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...randomly got pushed into this sport by my primary school gym teacher—he was the varsity wrestling coach,” O’Connor explained. “He must have recognized that I was a tough little crab running around in PE class. He said, ‘Why don’t you come be [the wrestling team] manager...
...then winning contests like Bocuse d'Or aren't even really about cooking, in the strictest sense. They're about theater, about spectacle and the ability to produce towering showpieces like Kent's "Scottish salmon with osetra caviar and sauce Fumet Blanc garnished with roulade of salmon with king crab and meyer lemon relish, and chilled salmon mousse with salmon tartare and salmon roe" in the minimum time. "The people that win [Bocuse d'Or], their food is so over-the-top," says Kent. "The [Bocuse d'Or] dish needs to be a showstopper. It needs to make...
From that day until his death on Jan. 27 at age 91, at his home in Cornish, N.H., Salinger was the hermit crab of American letters. When he emerged, it was usually to complain that somebody was poking at his shell. Over time Salinger's exemplary refusal of his own fame may turn out to be as important as his fiction. In the 1960s he retreated to the small house in Cornish, and rejected the idea of being a public figure. Thomas Pynchon is his obvious successor in that department. But Pynchon figured out how to turn his back...