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...your aukward article about the Ghana fitchewation. Every minotaur language seems to be losing whatever lynx remain with the deer old English we once gnu and loved. It used to comfort ocelot to pick up TIME and read straight-forward copy without being exposed to the whims of devilfish writers. And, alas, even TIME is now tapiring off in a manner that has us aphid linguiphiles so worked up we could spitz! Weasel all be happier if you stick with straight news copy. Too much of that other stuff chinchilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...these proceedings, which, while handsomely degenerate, also manage to be disappointingly dull. Dawn brings the epilogue, the endless end of Fellini's wretched world. In frozen horror, the revelers watch the apocalyptic "beast rise up out of the sea" in a fishing net-a sinister, obscene, colossal devilfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Day of the Beast | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...right, below, a visitor enviously examines a case of cut precious stones in the Minerological Museum, and in the lower right corner, a model of a glant devilfish hangs over two museum-goers in the Comparative Zoology section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University's Attic | 6/1/1955 | See Source »

...busily promoting railroads or flourishing what his opponents called his "oily, plausible pertinacity" in courtrooms, he was trying to raise the best sugar in Louisiana. For recreation, Benjamin would recite from memory "a wonderful stock" of verses (he was a passionate admirer of Tennyson), play whist, harpoon devilfish. His appreciation of good food and drink was vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Disraeli | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, after a year's notice, Japan ended the Convention, will presumably begin hunting seals in the sea. Reason given: seals were eating squid and devilfish sought by Japan's fishing fleet. Whatever the reason, it portends decimation or extermination for the seals. At the Pribilof killing grounds only the bachelors are slaughtered for the prime fur. In pelagic sealing hunters often shoot females with pups, often lose four out of five of the carcasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIBILOF ISLANDS: The Beaches of Lukannon | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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