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Surely, inflammation is half a billion years old, since even the lowly starfish may experience it. Virtually every human being who ever lived has suffered from it, perhaps dozens or hundreds of times. But why? And what is it? Pathology textbooks take refuge in rolling Latin, describing inflammation by its signs: rubor, calor, tumor, dolor (redness, heat, swelling, pain). It is the reaction of a part or all of the body to injury. In its later stages it includes the processes needed to repair the injury...
...Alone in the sea at night, I am always afraid," one veteran diver confesses. The audience shares his fear and fascination, and occasionally even his lethargy becomes swimmingly real. It is hypnotic and hilarious to watch a school of scallops, threatened by a starfish, go snapping across the ocean bottom like a herd of stampeding dentures. The film has its faults: it grows repetitious and tries to provide variety with music full of scubadoo cuteness. Thus, by the time the saucer plunges down for a climactic survey of the queer fish and mating crabs found...
...course of a year. In the best of all possible worlds, an oyster might live 15 years, but only one in 10,000 makes it to maturity. The tingle-snail can bore through the shell of a full-grown oyster and scoop out the meat in six hours. The starfish pries open the shell of the oyster and devours it. And of course there...
...meets a girl, Mora, whose dark eyes distill the rapture of the depths. "I am a mermaid," she tells him-perhaps referring to her job, which involves slipping into a scaly fishtail and then into a tank at a boardwalk sideshow. But Mora is unfathomably fey. She collects starfish and coral. Gulls fly into her arms. She is tormented by a mysterious Woman in Black who appears with jet veils murmuring about her like sea things...
...Starfish is widely regarded as an example of American recklessness in space. As one British member of Parliament put it, the space race should not involve "the spreading of haberdashery all over the place." Astronomers feel they must attack West Ford now, before the U.S. even begins to think of putting up a number of permanent belts...