Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Line -- and as the KGB was surely on the point of discovering -- Fiona had been a double agent all along, playing a delicate and deadly game for the cozy old establishmentarians who run Britain's spies. Deighton persuades the reader to take this shell-and-pea shuffling more or less seriously by giving real weight to Fiona's predicament. She is bright and tough, but the pressure of remembering her lines and her lies has worn away her resilience. She worries about going mad, about having already gone mad. Her sometime lover, probably also her KGB watcher, notices her distress...
...couldn't get the little slices of pork to form the perfect crescent that was pictured. Still, this book is a perfect distillation of the best of new American culinary inventiveness, in which old favorites get a new twist from the clever combination of other flavors. Good old soft-shell crab, for instance, gets dressed up nicely in a simple deglazing sauce made with lime juice and grated ginger, which breaks up the usual overly buttery taste of this summer treat...
...little disheartened by the behavior of Mr. Deighton's promoters. And Mr. Deighton, for that matter. When I shell out cold cash for a bestseller, I don't want part my money to cover the costs of a "12-Copy Floor Display," (which sells for $239.40 if you are interested in getting one to liven up your living room.) I don't want to pay for posters, Netword Radio Advertising, and nine-city author tours either. I'd rather just hear about a book from a neighbor, or a friend, or my dad or a teacher. Until then...
Last year at the Henley, during what Bernstein described as probably one of the team's best races, the Crimson team lost the famous Ladies Challenge Plate award because a stick was caught under the boat's shell's fin. The stick had obstructed the boat from moving at full speed, acting, in essence, as an anchor, weighing the boat down despite the team's considerable efforts to move ahead...
...attack on the state's tax structure, unveiling his $12.4 billion tax-and- slash budget. Anticipating that the state's liberal Supreme Court would soon order that aid to school districts be equalized, Florio beat the jurists to the punch by proposing his own plan. "Everyone is a bit shell-shocked," says former Democratic assemblyman Alan Karcher. "He had made a career out of being associated with safe issues...