Word: crustacean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crustacean lips that would...
Shown up by a crustacean...
...when angry or excited, actually squirt blood from the corners of their eyes. No animal seems more, well, humane than the American lobster, as portrayed by Stewart. Most sea creatures are love-them-and-leave-them suitors, impregnating their mates, then allowing them to fend for themselves. Not the crustacean, whose mate must shed not only her defenses but her shell when she visits his underwater den. Sensing something about vulnerability, he lets her stay a week or more until her new shell is grown...
...come in here so often, I know almost all the cashiers by name," says Liese Schwarz '85, who estimates that her own nightly average approaches $4. Over the course of her first semester she has checked out most of the available variety, including "these horrible crustacean things with chocolate chips," apparently imploding doughnuts, and enormous Hershey bars. "For a while we were into carrots and mustard, which were only 49 cents and 59 cents, respectively," she says, "but we got tired of being holy...
...competition were armed with buckets and shovels-the basic tools for molding an uncooperative medium into an image of their fantasies. Among the sculptures were a baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John Shields of Newton Center, Mass., built a medieval French walled city. But not even the most formidable...