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...Manhattan but was "laid off for lack of work." Cirillo is far from unemployed, crime fighters contend, since Gigante may be bogged down in court for some time. As Cirillo's friends down at the fish market would say, if they were talking: the underworld may soon be his oyster...
...fried Sichuan chicken is a good example. Chicken breasts are sauteed in a regular skillet, then drenched in a delicious sauce composed of the usual Chinese suspects: oyster, bean and hoisin sauces, sherry instead of Chinese wine, ginger, garlic, chili sauce and Sichuan peppercorns. Another of the charms of this book is the notion of serving these Oriental-style dishes along with Western foods, in this case with steamed carrots in parsley butter...
...area of the crash is near Oyster Bay Harbor on the north shore of Long Island, just south of the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, home of President Theodore Roosevelt. It is a isolated, wooded area of expensive homes...
...remainder was harder to dispel. Chemical dispersants, sprayed in limited quantities early in the week to break down the crude and make it sink, were effective for only a few days, until the oil emulsified, or mixed and bonded with seawater. Closer to shore, crews floated booms to protect oyster beds against the oil patch, which at one point came to within twelve miles...
...definitively be known about him has long since been tracked down. He was born May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, N.Y., into an old, distinguished New England family; one ancestor founded several towns in Massachusetts; another served as the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford. Pynchon graduated from Oyster Bay High School in 1953, enrolled at Cornell University, took time out to serve in the Navy, returned to college, worked on the literary magazine and received a B.A. in 1959. Classmates who remember Pynchon at all recall a tall, shy young man, occasionally given to bursts of prankishness...