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...figures of Babar the Elephant and his wife Celeste sewn on as a running motif across the apron of her party dress. Now, svelte and shiny in her silk fishnet dress with a fishnet choker and fishnet stockings, she was quite a different item. She looked like a captive eel at the Fulton Fish Market...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Candy is randy but pasta is fasta | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...corner of the glen": from the bare Rosses and Tory Iland "like a great ship where the sky dips into the sea"-visible out the right hand window-to Connemara and Aranmore, seen out the door, to the left-hand view of the Great Blasket "forbidding as an otherworldly eel, lying languidly on the wavetops". O'Nolan-na Gopaleen-O'Coonassa pulls the world in to the heart of Gaelic country and idiom. A chain of personae is a trademark of O'Nolan's literary career--in At Swim, as in O'Nolan's life, there is a writer...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Putting It On | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...store affords ample opportunity for all these. On its seven floors, with their tightly packed 16.5 acres of selling space, Mitsukoshi offers half a million kinds of merchandise. They include Bohemian crystal, Rolls-Royces with $60,000 price tags and homelier items like American jeans and portions of grilled eel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Sincerity for Sale | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...When Bryant's tests were reported to the American Philosophical Society, the A.P.S. formed a committee to arrange with the "owner of a torpedo or torporific eel [to] determine the nature of the shocks which it communicates." The offered price: ? 3. Physician Hugh Williamson later discovered, among other things, that the eel can stun fish at a distance, and "it can give a small shock, a severe one or not at all, just as circumstances may require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bz-z-z-z! | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...acknowledges the theft of the movie: "For the first 20 pages of script, I'm the character everyone is talking about-'He's coming, he's coming.' On page 21 I arrive. I can do anything ... move like an eel dipped in Vaseline. I'm the guy they keep promising will arrive. Poor Jack Nicholson. He's right at the center, cranking the whole thing out while I'm zipping around like a firefly. I wanted the character to be different, a serious study of the American Indian. But Arthur Perm said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Private World of Marlon Brando | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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