Word: eels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement came only after some last-minute shuttle diplomacy across the Pacific. Japanese automakers were firmly opposed to any export reductions, and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was having little luck bringing them into line. But after a Tokyo dinner of shredded sea eel soup and fried abalone, U.S. Trade Representative William Brock and Minister of Trade Rokusuke Tanaka began moving toward an agreement...
...Fish and Shellfish (Doubleday; $16.95). The theme of her book is "taking fish seriously," which steak-and-tater Yankees seldom do, even on the seacoasts. Americans are blessed with a biblical abundance of seafood; some 200 varieties pass through Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. They range from the eel (Anguilla rostrata), much prized by Mediterranean diners, to squid, abalone, Boston scrod, the sadly underrated pike and San Francisco Dungeness crab. American oysters-notably Lynnhavens, Bluepoints, Chincoteagues and the Pacific Olympias-are as delicious and nutritious as any that Roman emperors had shipped from England packed in snow. (Louis...
However, Schlondorff fails to give a similar sense of irony to a Beckettian sequence with an eel fisherman on a stark beach. While Oskar keeps a cold, dark view on life, the film changes tone: now it is bleak and blue, now it is warm and red. Does Schlondorff misunderstand his little hero or has he simply made only token efforts at linking each sequence to the whole? He manages to reduce the most profound chapter of Grass' novel, a discussion about art and life between a midget magician and a soliderly artist to a frolicking picnic atop a cement...
...tried to prove that defendants, under the cover of Formosa, had intentionally provoked violence in Kaohsiung as part of a long-range plan to overthrow the government. Formosa 's publisher, Huang Hsin-chieh, 52, was specifically charged with attempting to smuggle $14,000 worth of baby eels from the mainland for the purpose of financing seditious activities. Huang denied being an eel trafficker, and convincingly argued that his only goal as Formosa 's publisher was to build a legitimate opposition party in Taiwan whose function would be to "spur the government to improve...
...best interviewer around, if interviews are judged (as journalists usually judge them) not by whether the subject got across what he wanted to say, but by whether he had been goaded into more interesting- and presumably more revealing-candor. In Interview with History, Fallaci remembers Kissinger as "an eel icier than ice" and says, "I swear that I will never understand why he agreed to see me." Ayatullah Khomeini may have agreed to see her because she had been so rough on the Shah ("Let's get back to you, Majesty. So intransigent, so harsh, maybe even ruthless, behind...