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Perry Duryea looks like a product of eastern Long Island, as much a part of the coastal view as the countless red-and-white lobster pots from which he has, over the years, extracted a fortune worth a couple or three million dollars. Craggy-faced, silver-haired, attractively beefy, Duryea reminds you of a fine old patrician gentleman: so much money and style, and so little of the incisive wit or brilliance that might scare off the natives. He speaks the language of the east, which is to say he pronounces his words with a heavy Republican accent, and with...
...issues its own menu guidlines: "'Baked ham' should not have been boiled." Councilwoman Carol Greitzer of NEw York City has introduced a bill of fair fare that would outlaw such representations as describing an ordinary spud as an Idaho potato and an ordinary crustacean as a Maine lobster...
...August is the off-season for the Canadian lobster fishermen. When they're not lobstering, they spend their time long mining. Long mining is a laborious process in which the fishermen drop a 10,000-yd. long rope with fish lines spliced into it at 6-ft. intervals into the water. The fishermen haul up the rope and remove the catch, rebaiting every line as they go along...
...tournament commenced from idyllic Mateghan wharf with the Crimson venturing out in a lobster-fishing rig named the Mary Jane, skippered by a one-armed graybeard named Melbourne. Melbourne and his crew of two prepared an al fresco fish chowder for the Crimson fishermen's lunch. "They would pull a fish out of the water, filet it, and throw it in the pot," Purdy says...
...look, the movie itself is pretty irrelevant. This is what you do: take someone you love or like a lot out to dinner on a Friday or Saturday night. Have a modest meal--some medium-priced seafood, perhaps (lobster is okay if you can afford it)--and a carafe of Chablis. Don't overdo it: you should emerge a wee bit sloshed and pleasurably filled. Skip dessert (that's the movie). Then go see Revenge of the Pink Panther. Make sure the movie theater is filled (there's nothing more depressing than watching a Panther movie in an empty theater...