Word: oystering
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...Oyster's Autobiography. The mosaic of individual insights and adventures never unifies into a single, coherent vision. It is as if the director, sidetracked by the individuals, grew impatient with the crowd. Much of Fellini's extracurricular career is spent deflecting exegeses of his films, but he seems genuinely anxious to have audiences compare his ancient Rome with that of the Twentieth Centurians. "Rome in its decline was quite similar to our world today," he insists. "There was the same fury of enjoying life, the same lack of moral principles and ideologies, and the same complacency. Today...
...thing about the Eliot House subcultures is that they are not cliques. Many students only partially subscribe to the subcultures, many take on several different coatings of style in their three years, like a piece of sand becoming a pearl inside an oyster. Many of the History and Lit types are preppies (although they probably don't belong to clubs-unless it's the Signet); many of the preppies are jocks. The History and Lit types look down on the jocks in theory, but it's more jealousy than anything else...
...control the crown-of-thorns, some scientists suggest repopulating the reefs with tritons, which are now protected by law in Queensland, Australia. Others propose spreading lime on the ocean floor, a technique that has already been used with moderate success to protect Long Island Sound's oyster beds from the common American starfish, Asterias forbesi. A Japanese scientist has even advised stringing wire around coral reefs to repel the starfish with a low-voltage electric shock...
...lips tremble with rapture. He blows kisses to his own cuisine and launches into the most passionate eating scenes since Tom Jones. Occasionally he falls as flat as a novice's souffle. He once referred to the trimming of mushroom stems for a steak-kidney-mushroom-and-oyster pie as "a small circumcision." He crimped the edge of a piecrust with a gag-store pair of false teeth. His hyper-Briticisms tend to be overdone...
...capable of "crossing an ocean if you will." After a year of preparation, Eddy decided he was ready to do just that. So he set sail in the wake of Joshua Slocum, the retired trading-ship captain who took off from Boston in a 37-ft. converted oyster boat back in 1895 and returned three years later as the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehanded...