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...CLASSMATE lunged frantically into the carpeted splendor of the Essex Country Club locker room, just in time to pitch the blending of a New England boiled lobster, a day's worth of bloody marys, gin and tonics, and scotch-on-the-rocks, and a schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...
...oppose the project-is the danger to the local fishing and tourist industries. Scientists testified that oil was "an environmental poison" with long aftereffects. Ossie Beal, president of the Maine Lobstermen's Association, contends that tankers and barges would sweep away most of the 186,000 lobster pots in the bay. "If there was an oil spill," he says, "well, we'd be out of business down here...
THREE years ago the Cambridge City Council used to meet in the afternoon and then adjourn to Igo's restaurant for cocktails and a leisurely dinner of lobster or steak. The city picked up the tab, of course. But it is unlikely now that the nine councillors could refrain from making political accusations over such dinners. The Council meets now in the evening and the sessions are long. Driveway permits and requests to put up signs on stores no longer have priority. Groups protesting rent control, police brutality, the lack of low-rent housing, and the recent tendency...
...Because French bread stands free in the oven and is not baked in a pan, it has to be formed in such a way that the tension of the coagulated gluten cloak [coagulated gluten cloak!] on the surface will hold the dough in shape." And take her treatment of lobsters. She tells you how to determine their sex (the last pair of swimmerets on the male are hard, pointed, and hairless). She tells you how to kill them humanely. ("Using a sharp knife or lobster shears, cut straight down 1/2 inch into the back of the lobster, at the point...
After Bobby had finished a huge anthology of Western literature, someone asked what he had got out of it. As always, his answer was unpredictable: "I liked the poet . . . the delicate Parisian one, Gérard de Nerval. He walked his lobster on a leash. People in the street said: 'What's your lobster doing out here on a leash?' Nerval said: 'He doesn't bark and he knows the secrets of the deep.'" Bobby's special affinity, however, was for the Greek poets and dramatists, particularly Aeschylus, the father of tragedy...