Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town's 45-m.p.h. speed limit. "Crystal Beach is history," exulted Marina Operator Arnold Charpiot, 79, a leader of the antigovernment uprising. "We have thrown out the city...
...Hoffman, 31, top executives at different Connecticut management-consulting firms. "The prime purpose of our answering machine at home is so we can keep in touch with each other," says Ken of their jammed schedules. For pleasure, they sail and "cook seriously together," whipping up veal Normandy or Persian duck in pomegranate sauce. They subscribe to four gourmet magazines and have a collection of 150 cookbooks. Most recent vacation: three weeks in Tahiti and Bora Bora. "Part of me would like children, but, practically speaking, I don't see how," says Michele, who estimates the earliest date for childbearing...
Field hockey player Leelee Groome also scored only a single goal. But Groome has the longest ground ball in the league. And when she lifts one in the air, heads duck...
...pity that the audience must wait until after intermission to hear Linus Gelber's interpretation of the Cockney manager Teddy, since there is such a temptation to duck out for a soothing whiskey and soda after the rant-athon. Teddy is the sort of conman with a heart of gold that Bob Hoskins might play, but I doubt he could do a better job of it than Gelber. Even if it sometimes sounds like he just got off boat yesterday, and his accent has more of the West Side than the West End in it, Gelber still pulls...
...China, the most useful quality may be a spirit of adventure. Nowhere is an unprejudiced palate better rewarded. Many foods considered delicacies by the Chinese cause Westerners to shudder. Among such exotica are snake, sea slug, turtle, bird's nests formed of swallows' saliva, dried jellyfish and webs of duck feet. The faint-palated would bypass such choices and thereby miss some of the world's most carefully orchestrated seasonings as well as much of the drama of Chinese food. Snake cut in thin slivers and cooked in a soup suggests the most delicate chicken and, along with earthy black...