Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fish from Balcony. The Horizon House idea has its enthusiasts in other parts of the U.S. In Lisle, 111., 25 miles outside Chicago, Four Lakes Village is made up of apartments clustered around an abandoned rock quarry that has been transformed into a trout-and bass-stocked lake; each apartment has a 24-ft. balcony jutting over the water, and at-home fishing is popular with tenants. During the winter there is ice skating. A one-bedroom apartment rents for $150 a month; two-bedrooms...
...from water without drawing any of the liquid with it. Robb's membrane works best in a tank or stream of running water, where bubbles of oxygen are plentiful to draw on. Then the artificial membrane can operate as a gill does when it filters oxygen into a fish's bloodstream. Indeed, trout breathe best in mountain streams where there is plenty of oxygen in the water...
...French and Israelis two each, and the Italians, Dutch, Lebanese and Pakistanis one apiece. Last month Brazil's Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais opened up in Manhattan, and last week the Bank of Tokyo Trust Co. opened newly expanded offices as kimono-clad Japanese girls served raw fish and Suntory whisky to customers...
...Fish in Bowls. As the Kontakte musical score-a mixture of taped airport drones, traffic noise, radio static, mixed in with homemade sounds from drum, piano, saxophone and cello-unwinds, the performers follow carefully drawn stage directions. At 48 minutes sharp, for instance, the percussionist is instructed to "feed all animals, fish in bowls, birds and/or fowl in cages or wooden crates. A stuffed bird in cage is also fed." The director is told "to enter with an ape or with a pack of dogs on leash." At 68 minutes, the painter is instructed to "begin throwing nails on magnetic...
...also clear that Author Snow has gambled and won. His narrative style still ticks along like a metronome, and his characters still seem sometimes to move with the other-worldly pace of tropical fish seen through a glass-bottomed boat. But Snow has succeeded in transforming his own cliches about the men and ways of power in modern Britain: by the sweeping scope of the issue and the struggle, the strength of Roger Quaife, the accuracy of observation and dialogue and the disturbing pertinence of the questions, Snow has brought off a compelling novel of high politics...