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...know I was just thinking. I tell you when Charles and I first came here we didn't know a soul, before you and Harry moved down. Esther, and now we have so many friends. We know everyone in the building, and all those nice people in the Fiddler Crab, and a lot of those people over in the Senior Club--we know people all over town, really. Isn't that right, Charles, (I wish he wouldn't smoke so much. Charles...he said he'd stop when we came, if he keeps it up, who knows, he might...
...tour the division's own small pharmaceuticals factory, which produces medicine for stomach ailments, aspirin and a digestive candy made from crab apples and honey. In some rooms, women close glass vials with a blow torch as soldiers fill the vials with yellow medicine. The operation is simple and clean. Most of the operations are done by hand...
...trifle "repressive." Save for that, the Japanese hosts have anticipated every need right down to the installation of toilets equipped with heaters to prevent the water from freezing. The dining halls serve richly varied menus with items ranging from hamburgers and milkshakes to such local delicacies as hairy crab and fried squid. The village's sauna features an "enzyme ion bath" in which the athletes bury themselves in a pile of fermenting cedar sawdust. Every aspect of the games, in fact, from the new $119 million subway system that rolls on noiseless rubber tires to the crack team...
...greatly exaggerated. But they are not. No 20th century artist - not even Dali - went down so fast. The homage at the Cultural Center is a lugubrious affair, but an interesting one nevertheless; for it records in great detail how one gifted painter went backward under pressure, like an irritated crab, into a historical impasse - and has stuck there ever since, snapping his crusty pincers at every stir in the water...
...village. Hooligans tore his cottage apart. By the summer of 1961, he had had enough. He fled to a stony, wave-swept reef seven miles offshore known as Les Ecrehous (the Rocky Islets). On his barren refuge, no larger than a football field, he learned to subsist on lobster, crab and boiled sea lettuce, plus gifts brought by curiosity- seeking tourists. "Only by going away could I clear my name," he would tell them. "I was sure the terrible attacks would continue and my innocence would be recognized...