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Word: snapper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films nightly; they are old, but free. There are a daily tabloid newspaper, three radio stations and a TV station that broadcasts taped network shows - days after they are seen on the mainland. Viewers watch football games of which they already know the outcome. The fishing is great: grouper, snapper and snook. So are the scuba diving and sailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Good Life at Gitmo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...mouth, Maui offers some distinctive delicacies: ophis (yellow limpets) eaten raw, chicken stewed in coconut milk, kuolo (coconut and sweet-potato pudding) and macadamia-nut pie, aloha cousin to Southern pecan pie; also, almost all the island's fish, notably mahimahi (dolphin), ahi (tuna), ono (wahoo), opakapaka (pink snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya, persimmon, pineapple, lilikoi (passion fruit), guava and dozens of wild berries. Between meals, there are Dewey Kobayashi's famed Kitch'n Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...this deservedly respected writer-director's first entirely serious film, a faint hope stirs. Perhaps he is merely setting up the biggest Woody Allen joke of them all, since this kind of talk, and film making, is one of his best satirical subjects. Alas, the snapper never comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darkest Woody | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...title of the song is the real snapper, an old tough-guy cliche flipped around and twisted like a blade ?Only the Good Die Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Philadelphia is known for its soft pretzels (eaten with mustard), snapper soup (eaten with sherry) and heroic sandwiches (eaten with trepidation, and called hoagies). Last week another item-well-dressed cheesecake-was added to the local menu when Canadian Publisher Pierre Péladeau served up his new Philadelphia Journal, a breezy morning tabloid with an initial circulation of 200,000. The Journal's salient contribution to the state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hoagie City Hero | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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