Word: lobstering
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...right for De Gaulle to annoy the perfidious English, the vulgar Americans or the impossible Belgians," huffed a Gallic gourmet in Paris last week, meanwhile extracting a gobbet of white succulence from a pink lobster tail. "But to endanger lobster shipments, so vital to France, by picking a fight with the Brazilians-that's too much...
...Gaulle, naturally, paid no attention. His sense of grandeur wounded by a Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
Swimmers or Crawlers? Le grand Charles's latest fracas was spawned by a fine point of international law and the ways of lobsters: Do they swim as well as crawl? If lobsters swim, then the French may be entitled to catch them as fish; if they only crawl, they are Brazilian.* For, according to a 1958 Geneva convention, nations have a right to all the natural resources on the .continental shelf, including those living organisms that move in "constant physical contact" with the sea bed. Off Brazil, the continental shelf extends as much as 200 miles into...
...lipstick artfully placed between the breasts was advised as the latest cosmetic lure, the Earl dashed off an imaginary nightclub scene. HE: "I say, old girl, feeling all right?" SHE: "Absolutely dreamy. Why?" HE: "Well, that rash of yours. Could be measles, you know, or nettle rash. Perhaps that lobster we had. Anyhow, how about a trip...
...custom-a test of courage in which peasants, competing for a cash prize, see how long they can hang from the neck before cutting themselves down. If they wait too long they strangle to death. It is, after all, a bit like bullfighting; and besides, to get the rock lobster contract he must seem simpdtico to the proud Bam-bas-Quincy family, whose wealth dominates the island. Finally, Ben Smith sees what Author Ellin's cluttered symbolism has been thundering about all along: U.S. commerce and Santo Stefano cruelty are all of a piece. The self-control demanded...