Word: tuna
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...think we ought to risk it, Johnnie? I ain't so sure I want to mess with Big Tuna...
...other main approach to "nature" -landscape painting being hopelessly old hat-was via anthropology: artists playing Robinson Crusoe or Man Friday under an umbrella of structuralist jargon. Here, the palm for silliness must go to a Dutchman named Krijn Geizen, who built a reed hut and set a tuna to smoke on a rack outside it. This piece of mock primitivism was intended to say something about survival, in homage to the fishermen of the Po delta; but since the tuna was not caught by the artist but bought in the Venice fishmarket, the project looked vicarious, like Marie Antoinette...
...doubt young Johnny was spoiled in a manner befitting his position as the youngest in a large family. "None of my friends were allowed to eat as much candy as me," he remembers with glee. This indulgence has left him with a marked weakness for such caloric luxuries as tuna-melt sandwiches and hot-fudge sundaes. Maybe part of the extra attention was also due to some special parental intuition that their youngest was the most gifted of the brood. At six, Johnny was off visiting Sister Ellen in a road company of Gypsy. "He'd mouth all Merman...
...maintains that Johnny is "definitely a one-woman man, very selective. He's not the kind of person you worry about at a party." Marilu and Johnny moved in together back in Manhattan, played out their fantasies of London fog and foreign intrigue on the Upper West Side, ate tuna melts and guacamole (never at the same sitting), listened a lot to the sound track from Last Tango in Paris, and even worked together in a show called Over Here! By the last night of the show, Travolta had resolved to try his luck Out There. In Hollywood...
...Salinas Valley, the nation's salad belt, ruined many of the crops already in the ground, and will delay planting of others for up to 60 days. Result: prices of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus and similar produce are certain to move up. Fishermen will raise the price of tuna...