Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equivalent to the long social descriptions in Victorian novels. What the genre screens lack in iconic profundity, they make up for in their beguiling chatter of incident and their unfailing decorative sense. Priests, archers, race jockeys, carpenters, nobles, swordsmen, dancing girls, cooks, vegetable sellers, water carriers, lackeys, Kabuki actors, fishermen-the cast of characters is wide, embracing most of the classes and occupations in Japanese society-seen from the detached eyeline of upper-class patronage. The intimations of sympathy with underdogs that occasionally crop up in European genre painting are not to be seen here...
...limits for fishing. The jurisdictions overlapped in four areas: Georges Bank off New England, the Juan de Fuca Strait between Vancouver Island and Washington, waters off the Alaskan Panhandle and the Beaufort Sea off northeastern Alaska. With negotiations to settle the border problem going nowhere, Canada banned U.S. commercial fishermen from its waters. The U.S. quickly reciprocated...
...catch matures, from April 15 until June 14. Canada dawdled in honoring the proviso until May 15. On the East Coast, Canada demanded that the U.S. cut back its catch of scallops, cod, pollock and haddock on the Georges Bank to match quotas imposed by Ottawa on its own fishermen. State Department negotiators declared that Washington did not have the authority to impose such restraints...
Neither side wants the fish fuss to go on. Next week, negotiators will sit down again in Ottawa to seek a solution. In any event, while the dispute is causing hardships for some individual fishermen, it affects no more than $20 million worth of fish. Compared with the $50 billion in annual trade between the two countries, that is not much to be carping about...
...they were swapping stories about their runs. "The waves are always 20 ft. high and the holes 5 ft. deep," said Tim Clark, 29, an architect and ski instructor at Vail, Colo., who always times his yearly trip back East to coincide with the derby. "We all lie like fishermen...