Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life wasn't as hopeful back in Philadelphia, where the entire band went to high school together. They played separately in their own groups and sometimes together under the name "Dried Fish." But all their bands broke up upon their high school graduations in 1970, 1971 and 1972. Most of them gave college a few semesters, but only a few. By last January, Dried Fish was resurrected and began playing Philadelphia bars...
...appeals to his constituency. "Nixon is smart enough to wear dark 'authority figure' suits and avoid 'Daddy-went-to-Yale symbols.' " Such political taboos include Saks Fifth Avenue pinstripes and "those itty-bitty, fishy-look ties"-Ivy League silks patterned with tiny birds, animals or fish. They spell snobbishness. Before candidates rush to their tailors with Molloy's notions, however, they should realize that some of his clients have turned up losers on Election Day. The moral, it seems, is that it takes more than clothes to make the statesman...
...year-round gourmets-curiously slight of paunch considering their present trade-who once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter's superiority to margarine...
...food critics), Gault and Millau consistently name names. If commenting on Maxim's, they avoid such coy evasions as "a well-known restaurant on the Rue Royale." As a result, they sometimes face the fury of advertisers and libel suits. Of one establishment they recently wrote: "The fish soup was watery, the lobster brochette insipid . . . Only the maitre d'hôtel had a smile on his face." The offending Marseille restaurant-appropriately named Le New York -lost not only customers but the libel suit as well. "We established the principle that journalists have a right to criticize...
Robertson began to catch fish, using a homemade spear fashioned from gadgetry in his wife's sewing basket. Obliging sea turtles, apparently attracted to the dinghy in hopes of mating with it, added to the larder. They also enabled Lyn, a nurse by profession, to administer turtle-oil enemas to restore bowel movements. Finally, after 37 days at sea, the six castaways were picked up by a passing Japanese tuna boat...