Word: scalloper
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...living off of our innate biological desire to harm each other. Early scientists were paid well by the government for conducting research in pit development. The first attempts with pit technology entailed the digging of great holes in the earth, and then luring their enemies inside by placing cod scallop meat at the bottom. Yet this method proved ineffectual, for even back then no one really cared for the taste of this queer delicacy...
...compose No Trespassing signs. I could imagine Navasky in the thick of the story--interviewing disgruntled day-trippers who had been driven off the beach at gunpoint by civil liberties lawyers and contributors to the New York Review of Books, burrowing in courthouse records to find instances of scallop fishermen being snookered out of their land by neo-Keynesian economists...
...great is the demand for skill in fish preparation that the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, N.Y., the country's most prestigious professional cooking school, has set up a special fish kitchen. Says Specialist Rolland Henin: "Until a few years ago, I would bring in raw scallops and the students would say, 'Yuck.' Now I cut a scallop in half, and they can't wait to try it. Fish is becoming one of the predominant topics students ask about...
...your "Marital Tale of Two Cities" [Jan. 25] you failed to mention the plight of the scallop fisherman who is out to sea for ten to 14 days and home for only five. No letters can be sent. Ship-to-shore phone calls cost more than $7 for three minutes, and the conversation can be heard on scanners throughout the area...
...emerald-rimmed pinpoints inside a huge cloud of cherry fox. She is definitely post-mink. Her personality calls for skunk, or perhaps tree sloth (to match her elaborate false fingernails), but she settles on a coat with pelts worked in next year's pattern, a sort of scallop effect resembling a Queen Anne façade. In case she ever sets foot outdoors, she buys a coyote ski jacket. She seems sorry not to have spent more than $8,000. Her husband, waiting at one of the glass-topped tables along the edge of the room, appears only incidentally...