Word: tarantula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn, the tarantula twosome slithers, separately, into the bedroom of Malcolm and Kate, and on encountering a rickety desk that Malcolm has spent all night assembling, Trevor, with one helping touch, reduces it to a pile of kindling. Ayckbourn is an alchemist of incipient disaster, and his absurdist humor cuts through the veneer of domestic tranquillity with a serrated edge. Yet his surgery is oddly healing, a kind of revelation through copious laughter and minimal malice...
...wing it with a macaw named Bob. The occasion was a fund-raising luncheon for the New York Zoological Society, which is dedicated to protecting endangered species and displaying animals in natural environments. Chancellor, a devotee of wildlife preservation, had no trouble with the boa constrictor and the tarantula that came to lunch. The macaw, however, was for the birds. "Neither one of us expected to have our picture taken together," said Chancellor. "He bit me, just to show who was boss...
Carl Bertoliho, a Boston magic shop owner and a close friend of Bigelow's says the escapist "eats, sleeps and breathes escapes." Bigelow's house in rural Massachusetts is filled with strange paraphernalia such as caskets, chains, manacles and torture chests. He even has a pet tarantula, that he hopes to work into his act someday. Apparently his wife and two children do not mind...
...Philip Marlowe's trench coat. Even Dashiell Hammett's earlier fictions have not been so pervasive - largely, as Chandler noted, because "his writing has no echo and no tone." Chandler's does. The shady poetry of his similes ("I was as out of place as a tarantula on a wedding cake"), his metaphors ("the minutes went by on tip toe with their fingers to their lips"), his fadeouts ("What did it matter where you lay ... in a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping...
...meat is slowly but steadily finding a place on the dinner table. The toothsome steaks still are often sold to the unsuspecting under such fishy pseudonyms as "steakfish," "grayfish" and "whitefish"; the idea of dining on shark has traditionally been about as attractive to many Americans as eating fried tarantula or sting ray in aspic. But enterprising fish dealers and restaurateurs have found that they can overcome this revulsion by getting people to put shark to the taste test...