Word: oystering
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...Oyster...
Whether bursting the seams of a five-story New York City brownstone and a summer home at Oyster Bay, or sailing up the Nile in the winter of 1872-73, the Roosevelts appeared to be living one inspired moment after another. A friend observed that they constituted "a family so rarely gifted as to seem ... touched by the flame of the 'divine fire.' " But, as David McCullough's family portrait reveals, tragic cracks flawed all the Roosevelts, particularly the man who was, as if by mutual choice, the family's crown prince...
...FLOATING LIGHT BULB by Woody Allen A pearl of a playwright may emerge from the oyster bed of a wretched early home life. O'Neill, Williams and Miller provide eloquently autobiographical testimony to that. Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb seems distinctly autobiographical, but it is no more than a shucked oyster shell of a play...
...double-teammate of Smerczynski's. Winchester's DONNIE ALLARD, disagrees. "I like the Union Oyster House," the quarterback and right fielder maintains. Why? "Because of the clam chowder--I love clam chowder," he says...
...their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from her body after her workday as an oyster-bar waitress, she squeezes lemon-halves over her arms, shoulders, chest and breasts. Dingily unerotic, bathed in orange light, the sequence seems more satanic than baptismal. It distills the almost misanthropic repulsion towards this city that guides Malle's direction: nothing can really wash the smell away...