Word: fish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brown on the bare canvas ground, seems to reflect Winslow Homer's The Fox Hunt. Among the later paintings are versions of a Titian portrait, of a Flight into Egypt by Jacopo Bassano, and of a Manet still life: For E.M., 1981, in which the colors and placing of fish, copper pot and black wall remain as gleams and traces after the objects themselves have gone...
...best is yet to come, and Sherry, who has had Greene's sort-of approval and cooperation, should be in the best position to get it. Of all the big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, Greene is one of the most elusive. As Sherry told the British press this spring, "He will not give you anything. If you don't ask, you won't get, and if you do ask, you might well...
...wide and 40 ft. deep. In North Pacific waters, fishermen from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routinely let the nets float for as long as nine hours at night. They are intended to catch squid, but they also scoop up sea turtles, porpoises, seals, birds and various kinds of fish. Environmentalists call them killer nets and accuse those who use them of "strip-mining" the ocean...
...particular concern to the U.S. and Canada is the damage inflicted by the nets on North Pacific stocks of sea trout and salmon. U.S. fishing-industry representatives claim that some Asian fishermen have been pulling large numbers of salmon out of nets intended for squid. As a result, they say, fewer young fish return to North American spawning streams...
...Bush's limited response as a well-measured step, some members of Congress felt that the President had failed to flex the Super 301 muscle firmly enough. They contended that Japanese barriers extended well beyond the three areas cited, to items ranging from cellular phones and medical equipment to fish products and aluminum. "The Administration's feeble use of the Super 301 provision comes in the face of our continuing trade deficit," said Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, whose tough trade proposals gave rise to the Super 301 legislation. "((Bush)) has signaled to the world that he will take ((Japan...