Word: eels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream career as an Irish patriot. His initials also mean "Here Comes Everybody" (turning the sleeper into Everyman) and "Haveth Childers Everywhere" (making him Adam, father of all living). Once the reader gets the hang of this, the possibilities are endless: H.C.E. can also stand for "Human Conger Eel" and a hypothetical chemical formula, H²CE³ As a game, it beats parlor (or bedroom) psychonalysis...
...victory feast was elaborate in the best Japanese manner: wild boar soup, egg roll, raw fish, grilled eel and steaming platters of yakitori (chicken-on-a-stick). But the victory was not as sweet as expected, and the host could be pardoned if his appetite was a bit dull. In the election that preceded last week's "victory dinner" in his garden, Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato won his party's renomination under a cloud of rebuke from more than a third of his Liberal Democratic lieutenants. His victory thus assured him not only of almost automatic...
...roll star, but from the tops of their ducktail haircuts to the tips of their white buck loafers, these two look worse than any pair since the Everly Brothers. Bobby -- the little blond one who does that fantastic third "baby" in "Lovin' Feeling" -- kept calling tall dark Bill "eel" and "snake." The names are apt, but his voice gives you a few minutes when -- if you close your eyes or otherwise block out his perpetual smirk -- all can be forgiven. It is amazingly deep and seems to come from nowhere; the echo chamber you were always sure they used must...
...fact, pays such meticulous attention to his prose. Indeed, he sometimes sacrifices content to style and overwrites. He trotted out a veritable Noah's Ark to praise Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl: "She's like a grasshopper, a shy one . . . she's an eel on a chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue." And he is overly fond of metaphors of cuisine: "Well-done with French-fried potatoes and salad thrown in on the side" (The Unsinkable Molly Brown); "a disillusioned slice of life with no butter...
...handful of less famous but no less ambitious ones. And though they boast of the barons and movie stars who patronize them, in fact the ordinary working-class German accounts for an increasingly large slice of the business. As one Bonn sociologist points out, the workingman uses smoked eel, sturgeon, venison, curried-rice salad, or even chocolate-covered grasshoppers to liven up his traditional light evening meal. "Today," says Alfred Peters of Michelsen's, which claims to be the largest importer of caviar in West Germany, "it's nothing for the lower classes to come in here...