Word: drowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bowl of chicken and rice soup. When she returned, she discovered him with his face totally submerged in the dish. If she hadn't pulled his head back before it was too late, he would have earned the doubtful distinction of being the first man in history to drown in a soup bowl...
Dean had written in a journal: "There isn't an opportunity for greatness in this world. A fish that is in water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that he swim in sand...We are fish and we drown...
Compared with Rabbit, Run (1960) and Rabbit Redux (1971), this third novel about the life and times of Harold C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom seems, at first, uneventful. No infants drown in bathtubs, no houses burn down, leaving innocent dead behind. The year is 1979. Skylab is falling, gas prices are rising, and Rabbit, 46, sells Toyotas for Springer Motors, the firm founded by his late father-in-law. His on-and-off marriage to Janice is on again, glumly and apparently for good. They live with her mother and sock away money. Rabbit thinks less and less about his days...
...about the creature is culled from the continental reporter Labouchere, who noted that cats became a gourmet item during the 1870 siege of Paris. Their flavor, he recorded, is "something between a rabbit and a squirrel, with a flavor of its own. It is delicious. Don't drown your kittens. Eat them." Publishing industry sources would not confirm rumors that a book of recipes is being hurried into print...
...screen lovers raise their glasses in a toast, so does just about everyone in the audience. Wooroo! Such synchronized celebrations take place nightly at a growing number of movie bars in the South and Northeast, where patrons may chase a good flick-or drown a bad one-with beer, wine or cocktails. Seated in executive-style leather swivel chairs ranged around butcher-block cocktail tables, customers have only to beckon a waitress for refills or to order sandwiches. They manage thus to combine the comforts of home with the fillip of a night out. Indeed, sipping cinemas...