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...talked with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark about the political battle raging within Afrikanerdom. When Clark joked that the Prime Minister, who describes himself as a conservative, though not an "embalmed" one, bore no visible scars from his recent skirmishes, Botha replied: "I suppose I am like a crayfish-always in hot water." Excerpts from the interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk of Change: An Interview with Pieter Willem Botha | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...discovery of any of the following items on the beach: a dead crab; a dead crayfish; a Fresca bottle; a rock of three colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...often is quick, mechanical, riddled with shame and obviously unsatisfying. He writes: "The typical sex act is best done in the dark of night, under the bedclothes, and with the eyes closed." Foreplay, he says, is virtually unheard of. Typically, the female assumes what the Russians call the crayfish position with head and knees touching the bed. Her partner penetrates from the rear, and usually dismounts quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex in the Kremlin's Shadow | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...flood insurance, are the offices of white Attorney Joseph Defley, a former FBI agent who 14 years ago married the sheriff of Plaquemines' daughter and moved down from Chicago. One of his clients is Merlis Broussard, 45, a barrel-chested black construction worker who once helped dig a crayfish pond behind Chalin Perez's new home. They have just won a federal court suit to end the parish's method of selecting council members, which has long kept blacks from exercising political power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: The Legacy of a Parish Boss Lives On | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...also curtailed the use of Mirex, the pesticide that is most effective against the fire ant as well as harvester and Texas leaf-cutting varieties. Tests showed that the substance is potentially carcinogenic in rats and mice and toxic to such common crustaceans as shrimp, crabs and crayfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bugs Are Coming | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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