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...Moonies first began worrying the townspeople in 1977, when a church owned company bought a lobster packing plant for $330,000, a 14-room house and a swatch of swampy waterfront land. The church explained that it was simply going into the fishing business, as it had elsewhere, and, as William Sanders, 27, one of the plant's two Moonie managers put it, Gloucester was "our kind of town...
WANT! One night rocks were tossed through the windows of the lobster plant. Townspeople began signing an "open letter" to the Unification Church demanding a full explanation of its plans...
...never ate a bug that big before," says I the old gunfighter (Steve McQueen), faced down by a lobster at a cattlemen's banquet in a raw Wyoming town. His voice is soft, whisky-warm and a bit rueful; he knows that in 1901 his day is over, that he is out of place among the boost ers and dealers who have built the town and fenced the range. They have brought him here to wipe out a gang of rustlers, but his murderous skills and cranky in dependence make the clean-shirt-once-a-week crowd nervous. Before...
...Commencement dinner featured nine brands of champagne, and the feast itself included lobster, pheasant, beef, and innumerable delicacies. This seems a substantial improvement from Charles Francis Adams' day. His remarks on the post-ceremony meal: "The usual scramble for a bad dinner took place and the usual psalm, after which we left as rapidly as possible." The custom of the Commencement dinner has faded from the scene for unknown reasons...
...speculates on the Edwardians' taste for the novels of George Meredith, for satire and high comedy: "One can see why: an age of surfeit had arrived. The lives of the upper classes were both enlivened and desiccated by what seems to have been a continuous diet of lobster and champagne-a diet well-suited in its after-effects to the stimulation of malice." His description of Haggard captures both an individual and a class: "Like many popular bestsellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough...