Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What purpose would going public serve? The spate of stories provided an alert to New York precinct commanders to keep an eye on where Galante lives (an old, unprepossessing apartment house in Greenwich Village); where he eats (facing the door at a small restaurant near the Fulton Fish Market); where he "works" (a dry-cleaning business he supposedly owns in Little Italy); where he plays (his mistress's flat in Manhattan's Murray Hill section). Already this close surveillance has forced Galante to make one change: his 21-year-old daughter Nina used to cart him everywhere...
...trunk, then drive the car away, all in full view of passive onlookers who know better than to protest or intervene. Not a single person bundled off in this manner has ever been seen alive again. A day or two later, the body, badly bloated and mutilated by fish and crocodiles, turns up floating in the Nile or Lake Victoria. Some of the corpses are dragged up on shore by hyenas and further savaged...
...Stephen Miller has managed to maintain a refreshingly wry tone. For example, in discussing nutrition, he notes that "sad to say, more organic food is sold than grown." Stressing preventive medicine, which is frequently neglected, he condemns smoking, prescribes liquor only in moderation and cries fowl (as well as fish) to saturated-fat-laden beef...
After making plaster casts and puttering about the dig site, sightseers get a look at some of Harvard's more famous fossils including coelcanph, a "living fossil" (it survives today) and is a special attraction at the museum. Coelacanph is an example of a prehistoric fish which made the transition from water to air respiration. Harvard acquired its bones some 20 years...
...Fish Chowder? Does that include minnow meat...