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...Kamikaze Hideo Kawai cried: "Why, you look exactly the same!" "And you look as handsome as ever," said she. "Banzai!" cheered Kawai, a portly, balding Kyoto milk dealer who obviously could not swing into a fighter cockpit as easily as he once did. Over a lunch of rice, shredded cuttlefish and beer-a traditional Kamikaze last meal -the men and women swapped toasts "to the best days of our lives," promised to meet again next year...
...fogged with midges . . . waterspouts like giant trumpets of lead on the flogged horizons." At 21, he exchanged one desolation for another: the trenches of World War I. At 25, he witnessed the collapse of Italian culture under Mussolini. At 29, when he published his first volume of verse (Cuttlefish Bones), he was an apocalyptic pessimist who experienced "existence as entropy" and expressed the experience in language as acrid and compact as Dante...
...results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said...
...famed wooden geisha houses along the river Sumida. A geisha party before the war meant soft lights from many-colored lanterns, the tinkle of the samisen, a mossy garden with elegant dollhouse trees, a banquet starting with pickled sea-urchin eggs, dried seaweed, bonito entrails, mushrooms, and cuttlefish served with maple leaves and chrysanthemums. Above all, it meant the geisha girls themselves, in lacquered wigs and colorful kimonos, who poured sake from porcelain vases, performed their slow and discreet dances, and sang their sad, seductive love invitations...
According to the April 23 Science section, the subtle squids discharge a cloud of ink to escape enemies. Presumably the octopus and cuttlefish employ the same method of self-defense; they are not the only ones...