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...being cooked and sold were recent converts to this saltwater delicacy. "I just began eating squid when I came to this fair two years ago," said Alicia Silva, who had traveled from San Jose with her husband Joe and their children Amelia and Joseph, all gathered around a picnic table as they breakfasted on golden fried squid rings dipped in tartar sauce...
...King's Beach, a strip along the Indian Ocean in the eastern Cape city of Port Elizabeth. Parents reclined under striped umbrellas as black maids took the children to play in the waves. Not far away, a colored (mixed race) man, his wife and two small children enjoyed a picnic on the sand. For a brief time last month, such racially mixed scenes were countenanced by law at Port Elizabeth, after the state Supreme Court struck down local city ordinances that reserved beaches like King's for whites only. But as the Pretoria government appealed the decision, apartheid once again...
...least the pastel picnic tables that, as the third project, still dot the Quad do serve some useful purpose, but they too are little more than burlesque--thanks to Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman's infamous observation about picnic tables: "Either you've sat on them or you've gotten laid on them." It wasn't the most practical idea to allow artists to indulge their whimsy at the expense of the hundreds of students who wanted to play frisbee on the field or walk across it unimpeded, but the concept and the execution alike were good...
Fortunately, according to Al Edwards,supervisor of custodial services, the workers haveyears of experience to draw on. "Basically, it'sbeen the same for 30 years," Edwards says. "It's atough job though--it's no picnic...
Once they have safely arrived, families are invited (expected) to pay for the lobster clambake, a $5/person picnic luncheon if more than two guests have made the journey and another $5.25/person for a luncheon during the degree presentation, "The Big Moment," if more than two guests are in tow. In addition, there is the $7 charge for graduation announcements, the $17 cost of an individual graduation picture in addition to a senior class picture, and the expense of caps and gowns...