Word: monstering
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...adventurous types can fly out to Hayman Island (round trip: $209) on the Great Barrier Reef, where there is a good hotel ($5 per day) and some of the world's best skindiving and big game fishing, or go on a three-week hunting trip (cost: $210) for monster crocodiles in the lonely Bay of Carpenteria...
...night the spaceship is assaulted by an invisible monster who leaves footprints like those of a colossal tree sloth, and is completely invulnerable to any kind of atomic attack. Accused by the commander, Morbius reveals his secret: Altair was once inhabited by a race of creatures, the Krell, whose technology was a million years ahead of mankind's. They vanished mysteriously, in a single night, even as they realized their greatest achievement: a civilization without instrumentalities, force without form, spirit without substance. They became, in a word, gods. Or did they? On paper, the answer to this question would...
...name French ballerina who is haughtily accustomed to being the toast of the town. In Las Vegas. she turns out to be just a very expensive kind of digestif: she is expected to dance while the customers eat. Even more shockingly barbaric, she feels, is the mechanical monster she finds lurking in her boudoir-her own personal 25? slot machine that was installed, the management hastens to assure her, as a sign of especial esteem. Worst of all, the male population is made up mostly of gamblers, who are so busy losing money that they have no time to make...
...turns, and suddenly a long, coldly intellectual face stares straight at the spectator with an eye that catches him like a fishhook. This is Richard-lame leg, hunchback, "weerish withered arme" and all-and he is a frightening man indeed. A minute later the moviegoer is alone with the monster. "Why," he confides, as the thin lip writhes with an impish humor, "I can smile, and murder while I smile / . . . And wet my cheeks with artificial tears . . . / Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? / Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down...
...Calgari, the Mummy, and even Frankenstein are gone. In their place are The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Thing, and Lobo. In The Bride of the Monster, one of Bela Lugosi's last movies, the virile fiend of Dracula has become a rather prosaic old alchemist. It is as if Lugosi, like Varnoff, had at last capitulated to the modern emphasis on drawing the blood from healthy vampires...