Word: jellyfish
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...Avril, and was murdered by the cold cubism of Weimar's Bauhaus. Now it seems oldfashioned, yet it marked a rebellion against the fussy, historically eclectic aspects of Victorian art. It found its forms in nature: the lily (water, tiger and calla), clinging vines, leaves of all kinds, jellyfish, polyps-a whole botanical garden of gentle, curving shapes...
Many other jellyfish have stings, but those of the Physalia group secrete a nerve poison almost as virulent as the king cobra's venom. The abundant Caribbean form, physalia, is rarely more than eight inches across its mauve, iridescent, jellylike body, but it has scores of tentacles up to 50 ft. or even 100 ft. long. These tentacles are like strings of microscopic beads, containing tiny poison cells consisting of a hollow, coiled thread with a barb...
...only treatment is to ease the pain, usually with external applications of alcohol. The only protection against Portuguese men-of-war is to keep away from them. In March and early April, when myriads of the purplish jellyfish are blown ashore by easterly winds, avoiding them is not always easy for Florida swimmers...
...hair was translucent and slippery as spun glass, his skin white and soft as the flesh beneath a woman's breast, bluish in certain folds and hollows; his eyes gleamed liquidly as pale green jellyfish in shifting rays of sunlight. He lay curied and dreaming like a foetus swimming in formaidehyde...
Nothing floors Hollywood quite so much as an ordinary man with a reasonably strong character, and whenever one comes to town he stands out like a sea horse in a colony of jellyfish. One is there now. He is a polite, amiable, tall, dark, and loose-hung Scot named Sean Connery, who divides his time. In every other film he makes, he is Ian Fleming's Secret Agent James Bond (Dr. No, From Russia with Love). Now working in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, he is playing a company owner who tries to cure a pretty kleptomaniac (Tippi Hedren...