Word: octopus
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Buell compares Harvard to an octopus. "It's easy to spend almost all your time in one tentacle," he says...
...Bela Lugosi's mad monologues in Glen or Glenda ("Bevare of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep!" he intones between stock shots of atom-bomb blasts and buffalo herds. "He eats little boys! Puppy-dog tails! Big fat snails!"); to Bride of the Monster's rubber octopus with a broken tentacle, which Wood stole from Republic Studios; to Lugosi's double in Plan 9, who is a head taller than the star (who died during the filming) and must cover his face with a cape; to the thespian exertions of 400-lb. ex-wrestler Tor Johnson...
That dreaded octopus was both shrunk and beheaded. The KGB's 230,000-strong armed forces were put under the control of the regular army and its governing collegium was dismissed. Remaining bosses of the agency that for decades terrorized millions of Soviet citizens were put on notice that they would themselves be investigated to determine their roles, if any, in the coup. New Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov had earlier pledged to remove most of the ministry's collegium, its top leadership...
...Justice Department and Inslaw, Inc., a computer software company based in Washington. Inslaw executives charge that Reagan Administration officials pirated their software, designed for law-enforcement purposes, then sold it. Casolaro believed the Inslaw affair was just part of a much deeper tangle of intrigues that he called "the Octopus." They included the Iran-contra arms deals and operations of the renegade bank B.C.C.I...
...embalmed -- though police had not reached his family to get permission. That only heightened his family's suspicions. "I don't think Danny was depressed," insists his brother Anthony, an Arlington, Va., physician, who says Casolaro was convinced that he had succeeded in tying the Inslaw case into "the Octopus." "My sense was that he was very excited...