Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points to stuffier places in more conventional surroundings. Chasen's rates its four stars more for its pressagentry than its food. On the other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre Restaurant in San Francisco, starred twice by a taster whose appreciation for his crab bella vista was perhaps enhanced by the platoon of undraped chorines onstage. (The guide discreetly lists this as "elaborate entertainment...
...native dances and feasts that are more enjoyable than Hawaii's. In the valleys are deep, clear pools where a swimmer can splash beneath waterfalls; along the reefs are mahoa, pink-shelled snails that can be gathered and eaten raw or fried in butter; in the lagoons are fish easily speared; near by are bananas, papayas and limes for the plucking...
Caribbean & Indian Ocean from Flying Fish to Araby...
...Uganda, Tanganyika and Kenya, the key attraction is the elephant and all the rest of the wild, wondrous fish and game, as well as what Author Alan Moorehead calls "a certain exhilaration . . . The simple and perhaps childish pleasure of knowing that no one probably had passed this way before, and that no other human eyes had seen these particular animals roaming across the plain ... It was the sort of thing that skiers feel when they break new snow in the mountains, or sailors in a small boat in a remote...
...Fish, Little Fish. An honest, unhackneyed, sometimes labored comedy about a has-been editor who lands in the frying pan of false success...