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...weak. "Budalastina [What poppycock]," he muttered. "I am stronger than all the men of Bol, and I will show them." Ivica knew a cove along the shore beyond the village. Hiding in the rocks of a reef 50 ft. out was a giant conger eel. For years the men of Bol had tried to catch it and had failed. Every day after the younger men had rowed off to the fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always the eel snapped the line or bit through it, and slid...
...show's staff of 30 usually manage to fulfill every queen's wish, no matter how outlandish. (One notable failure: "World peace.") The show hires detective agencies to run down lost children, once sent a winner to barber's college. "One lady wished for an electric eel," says Bailey. "She wanted, to make a broth for her son to help his asthma." Without asking any questions, the show tracked down an eel and delivered...
...Coonian Ghost-a Thing that troubled the peace of a house in Coonian, Ireland with rappings, rushings, snatchings, snorings and putting out of lights. Three priests were sent by the bishop to cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what country people would call 'a hard death.' " The Thing won out in the end. The haunted...
...tall. The jaw is powerful, the skin rough and swart, the profile jutting and rudely masculine, the lips sensitively curved and humorous. At a glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary personality, and women acquire the expression of poleaxed sheep; he exudes sex appeal like a leaky electric eel. He chooses his clothes with care ? the Italian shoe of exotic cut, the chesterfield with the velvet collar, the bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals that have been blown...
...baby sea turtle who hungrily attacks the film's true hero, a shy, sensitive octopus many times the turtle's size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense of smell fouled up by the wounded octopus' ink defenses...