Word: boating
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Lists have been around forever. Noah undoubtedly used one to check off the lucky couples on his boat. Moses went up a mountain and came down with one. Man is an inveterate listmaker. I list, therefore I am. To define is to list. A Partial List of Lists (and the list is endless...
...were an African-American, I wouldn't step into the [military] boat," said Atkinson. "If Bush can't sign a single civil rights act for me, I wouldn't serve his administration...
...lines and drifted into the low- level despondency that Jimmy Carter called "our national malaise." The current economic slump -- not yet officially recognized as a recession + -- threatens to be particularly divisive because of the increasing disparity between haves and have-nots. "In the 1930s, everyone was in the same boat and knew other people were suffering too," observes Val Farmer, a clinical psychologist and syndicated columnist from South Dakota. "The current problems affect people so unevenly that they don't pull together...
...Manhattan's 21 Club, chef Michael Lomonaco is extravagant in praise of cultivated scallops, raised on Cape Cod -- "beautiful, absolutely delicious." Al Falchi, who owns the Waterfront Restaurant in San Francisco, buys farmed fish because "you never know how long a wild fish has been sitting on the boat." Perhaps the last word should go to Paul Constantin of New Orleans, who has ridden the catfish wave at his nouvelle Creole restaurant, Constantin's. "Tourists come here to give different foods a shot," he observes. "Look, if they'll try raw oysters, they'll try anything...
...flakes and endowed with a Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria's dying words in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The White Devil seem to fit this recurrent dream of Ryder's coastal childhood, the boat scudding in the maw of the waves or becalmed, like a floating coffin, on the expectant water...