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Complicated, but charming nonetheless. And there have also been flashes of true American wit over the years, with Congressman John Randolph of Virginia comparing an adversary to "rotten mackerel by moonlight; he shines and stinks," or dealing with his public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Have All the Insults Gone? | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who's Fillmore? What's He Done? | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...year-old, one-ton Atlantic walrus, who likes to squirt water at visitors. Because she is so expensive to keep, Brookfield is letting anyone share Olga for a donation of $15. So far the zoo has raised $13,000, enough to feed Olga 55 Ibs. of herring and mackerel a day throughout 1980. It also covers the expense of Olga's Christmas tree: a fir decorated with fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: And a Fish in a Fir Tree | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...spending an entire vacation in Scotland, the Strategic Traveler can take a fast train north to the Highlands for several days of fishing, hunting, golfing, sightseeing and walking on the moors. The braw, bonny Scots pride themselves on their victuals: venison and wild game of all sorts, salmon, trout, mackerel and Aberdeen Angus beef, which they seem to cook better than the Sassenachs can in the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Europe: Off the Beaten Track | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...offers some distinctive delicacies: ophis (yellow limpets) eaten raw, chicken stewed in coconut milk, kuolo (coconut and sweet-potato pudding) and macadamia-nut pie, aloha cousin to Southern pecan pie; also, almost all the island's fish, notably mahimahi (dolphin), ahi (tuna), ono (wahoo), opakapaka (pink snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya, persimmon, pineapple, lilikoi (passion fruit), guava and dozens of wild berries. Between meals, there are Dewey Kobayashi's famed Kitch'n Cook'd potato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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