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Word: eels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acknowledges the theft of the movie: "For the first 20 pages of script, I'm the character everyone is talking about-'He's coming, he's coming.' On page 21 I arrive. I can do anything ... move like an eel dipped in Vaseline. I'm the guy they keep promising will arrive. Poor Jack Nicholson. He's right at the center, cranking the whole thing out while I'm zipping around like a firefly. I wanted the character to be different, a serious study of the American Indian. But Arthur Perm said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Private World of Marlon Brando | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...mysterious nosebleed? Later the blood flows everywhere and the sea is awash with gore: "The moray struck, needle teeth fastening on the man's neck, throat convulsing as it pulled back toward the hole. Blood billowed out of the sides of the moray's mouth." That moray eel, which figures in the book's penultimate scene, is unlikely to start a craze or appear on T shirts. As for The Deep, it is a competent pulp adventure jazzed up for jaded boys and girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fish and Foul Play | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...capacitor plants had been dumping them at the rate of about 30 lbs. per day since the early 1950s. In tests conducted last summer, striped bass, carp and other fish species were found to contain many times the allowed federal limit of 5 parts of PCBs per million. One eel was found to have 559.25 parts per million of the chemical-an amount so high that an adult who ate a 7 oz. portion would get 50% of his lifetime allowance of the substance in a single serving. Says Robert H. Boyle, a writer and longtime Hudson River fisherman: "Shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Perils of PCBs | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...long-term co-existence, an existence that excludes off-Islanders. Aliens are not wise to the shallowness of water over there or the good fishing over here. Islanders know, and wouldn't be foolish enough to ground their boats, pick up poison ivy, or try to fillet an eel for supper...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: No Man Is a Vineyard | 9/18/1974 | See Source »

...child extra in Mack Sennett comedies. After graduation from art school, he supported himself by drawing pencil portraits for $1 apiece at a friend's bookstore. From this he drifted into animation, more or less moseying up through the ranks of animation's curious technocracy (eel washer, painter, inker, in-betweener), and began directing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The World Jones Made | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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