Word: octopus
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...catch. The Paris of the piece (Robert Wagner) then runs away with its Helen (Terry Moore), the daughter of the Big Conch himself. Together they go out to the diver-dreaded twelve-mile reef. The underwater photography here is pleasant, but hardly striking. However, the climactic fight with an octopus is staged well enough, and everything comes epically to an end with a line not even Homer could have written. Says Paris, by way of offering peace to Helen's father...
...individual episodes themselves are sometimes magnificently caught. There is the cold insanity of the wounded moray as it fights the spear, and glares hate from what is surely the most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger, as it watches the underwater world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing...
...teeming life of the deep sea, the divers found far fewer terrors than the reader might expect. Cousteau takes pleasure in debunking the usual tales of sea monsters, having found the octopus an agreeable playmate and giant rays, moray eels, and even "killer" sharks most uninterested in the human invaders...
From Apia. British Samoa, came a picture of Cinemactor Gary Cooper, proud spearer of a young octopus, which Cooper got during an off-duty period from his job of starring in Return to Paradise, based on a James Michener South Sea story...
Cohn runs the Lab with octopus-like efficiency and inspires his helpers to work long hours by his own almost tireless example. He seems to exert direct control over almost all of the lab, including the design of pamphlet covers. Believing that scientific information should be released to scientists first, he refuses to give press interviews or allow members of his staff to be quoted on scientific matters...