Word: aquarium
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...past four years that number has quadrupled. The center of the danger area runs from Monterey Bay to Point Reyes, Calif. This 90mile stretch of coastline together with the Farallon Islands to the west forms a perilous wedge now called the Red Triangle. John McCosker, director of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, says, "It may be the shark-attack capital of the world...
...first impression, in a roomful of them, is of wandering in an aquarium. Coral is everywhere: fans, rigid laces, spreading antlers, all speckled and inscribed with rainbow color. Growths push upward from the floor and terminate in mad displays of hair, Medusa-like tentacles and other scribbles. Though some sculptures seem to belong to the sea bottom, there are others that suggest the land-tropical nature, in its fleshy leafings and embowerings. The plants, or colonies, or whatever they are, ramify from narrow stems; sometimes they reverse the "normal" look of sculpture-well planted, firmly accommodating itself...
...actor, Shepard has appeared once in a work of his own and a few times on film. He has misgivings about both: he describes his experience acting in his own work as "like being in an aquarium...
...which she brought with her to the U.S. in 1938, impressed American critics and were soon included in a Museum of Modern Art show, the first of many. "I am attracted to enormous forms," she once said of her work. "If I go to an aquarium, I love every fish, but I would probably photograph only the whale...
...World War I trench. Viewers are cheerfully bid welcome "to the Middle of the Film, where we will play a game of... Find the Fish" Fish, particularly goldfish, remain a dominant theme throughout, prompting various subtitled admonishments from the "management" and offering ironic social commentary from a strategically positioned aquarium...