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...piece tubers fall from a bicycle wheel attached to a fan motor in the ceiling and cascade to the floor. The foot-like paper balls that hang just above the floor make the tubers look like legs, and give the impression that one could be looking at a giant arachnid...

Author: By Michaela O. Daniel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visiting Faculty Exhibition at Wellsley | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...long pants taped into sock tops, many people actually do it, though the fashion statement is irredeemably tacky. The meticulous daily body inspection that is the most effective preventive is now a normal routine, like flossing teeth. What you are looking for is the nymphal stage of an arachnid (not an insect) that is louse-size only as an adult and that as a nymph has been compared to a dark freckle. Where you are looking is behind the knees, in pubic and scalp hair, under watchbands, in armpits. Yes, you need a partner for this, and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In The Age Of Lyme | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...Plot, admirably scripted by Don Jackoby and Wesley Strick from a story by Jackoby and Al Williams, centers on a giant Venezuelan spider, accidentaly imported into a small northern Californian town in the coffin of its first victim. The belligerant arachnid then mates with a harmless domestic spider, creating a deadly army of offspring which quickly goes about killing members of the unsuspecting populace. The remainder of the film concerns itself with the town's efforts to rid itself of the newly acquired menace...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: What's Giant, Venezuelan, and Introduces Itself To You When You Open a California Coffin? | 7/27/1990 | See Source »

...examines those cigarettes and whom he sees in that faded snapshot - questions resolved at the proper theatrical instants. Moreover, Karla, in a pivotal chapter, turns out not to be inhuman after all; he has, in fact, Victorian sentiments, although in all previous appearances, he has been nothing but an arachnid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Act for the Circus Master | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Solar Cycle. Other earthlings aboard Skylab did not fare as well. The spider Arabella, which became famous by demonstrating that it could spin a web in zero G, survived the return to earth. But its arachnid companion Anita died before the end of the mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Longest Journey | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

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