Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conklin, 36, should know. As associate director of aquaculture at the University of California's Bodega Marine Laboratory, he has been involved in one of the more promising lobster-farming experiments to date. For seven years, marine biologists, chemists, geneticists and nutritionists, working in two small concrete blockhouses on the waterfront of Bodega Bay, a quiet fishing village about two hours' drive northwest of San Francisco, have been unraveling the puzzle of mass-producing lobsters...
...1860s Mark Twain wrote a humorous column for the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City, Nev., about a horse that tried to eat a boy on his way to Sunday school ("The boy got loose, you know, but that old hoss got his bible and some tracts ..."). Twain overheard somebody laughing at it and decided to write more columns, all just as hilarious as the first...
...Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. It was built by a whaling captain in 1835, at the height of the island's seafaring prosperity. Its present owners seem comfortable there, and with each other. Tall, handsome and merry of heart, Mimi is a good conversational match for Baker, and people who know the pair well tend to say "they" when talking of them, rather than...
...suburbs, etc., etc. It foundered expensively in Toronto and was mercy-killed in April, just before its scheduled Broadway opening. The experience is instructive, "like being lost in a bog," Baker says. "I saw other musicals last year and sometimes asked myself, 'Didn't the producers and directors know they were awful?' I answered that question: 'No, you don't know.' I still think we folded the makings of a good show...
When Baker began to write the "Observer," he says, he had no notion that failure was a possibility, only a determination not to let his columns fall into an easily identifiable category. "You get onto a columnist, you know. There's foxy grandpa, there's the font of wisdom, there's Mr. Inside Information, and I was trying to mix it up, like a junk-ball pitcher in baseball keeping them off balance." He laughs. "You get older and lose your fastball and there's more junk. It was easy to be angry, but I felt you couldn...