Word: octopus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unleashed a barrage of tennis balls onto the Big Red net minder. As Hayward flees for the protection of his own bench the following make appearances on the ice: a large fish, which Cornell defenseman Joe Gallant flips back into the stands with his stick: a large squid or octopus, which positions itself just outside the Cornell crease; and finally, a live chicken--spray-painted Crimson, of course--courtesy of Kirkland House, which plops itself down behind the Cornell net before the Big Red's Paul Geiger, who sends it back into the crowd special delivers. During the ensuing clean...
Harryhausen has made do with much less. Because of budget restrictions, the monster octopus in his 1955 horror film It Came from Beneath the Sea had only five arms. It may be that in Clash of the Titans Harryhausen was inhibited by the upscale cost and cast (Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom, Burgess Meredith, Flora Robson). Too much time is spent plodding through the plots with actors who seem ill at ease playing in a film whose glory is its special effects. They are glorious indeed. And that is reason enough to see Clash of the Titans. The onscreen manipulator...
...through medical school by playing violin and saxophone, started MCA in 1924 and eventually abandoned his medical career to lead the company's expansion during the 1930s and '40s into a national booking service for top bands and Hollywood stars. MCA became known as the "octopus" for its extensive holdings in the entertainment industry, which by the late '50s included Decca Records and Universal Pictures and Television. A noted philanthropist, Stein donated $19 million to help build five eye research centers and led a successful campaign to establish the federally administered National Eye Institute...
...energetic work, it is immersion. Colonies of shapes-spiky, blobby, twisting, knotted, tangled-sprout upward from the floor or hang in clusters from the ceiling. They proliferate like brain coral, elkhorn, lacy underwater fans; the wall beyond them dissolves into patches and drifts of submarine color. It is the octopus' garden, and walking through it one seems to float. Such an image could become excruciatingly kitschy (one cutout angelfish would do it), but what preserves the balance and tightness of Pfaff's work is her daring, uninhibited sense of abstract form. Those squiggles and meshes, bits of screening...
...part of a nameless inner city, and the Blues are the men and women of the local police precinct. Each episode traces a day in the life of the precinct, as the Blues try to defuse street crime, play social worker at knife point, slip out of an octopus stranglehold of red tape, keep their private lives from ending in a singles bar or the divorce court...