Word: waterspouts
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...catalog, rather absurdly, suggests that celibate Homer was invoking that hoary phantom of the Freudian couch, the vagina dentata. This could make sense only to an art historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently by, and we see the waterspout of a coming tornado. There will be no rescue. The painting refers back to other images of marine disaster, notably Turner's Slave Ship and Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, in an image of total pessimism. This, Homer says, is what the voyage of life comes down to: hanging...
Almost alongside the Oklahoma, another torpedo hurtled through the air. After releasing it, recalled Lieut. Jinichi Goto, commander of the Japanese torpedo bombers, "I saw that I was even lower than the crow's nest of the great battleship. My observer reported a huge waterspout springing up . . . 'Atarimashita! ((It hit!))' he cried...
...husband Guy, the First Hubby, sourly tells her, "Have yourself a merry little isthmus." Got all that? Oh, yes, and Clementine became President when her running mate, the victorious Democratic candidate, was brained by a fish (no assassination, just a 13-lb. porgy ex machina sucked up by a waterspout and dumped on him by fate and a desperate author...
...eyed monster) and little-green-menace stage, science fiction can look fondly at its own beginnings, and Amis writes knowledgeably of Lucian of Samosata. The Greek writer's True History is an early account of a space voyage (the ship is whirled to the moon by a waterspout), but though fictional it is hardly scientific, even considering the state of science in the 2nd century A.D. Claims of other ancestors are unsurprising: Swift, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Until about 1940, BEMs kept a many-tentacled grip on the medium, but then came the big turning point. Readers...
...stoutly proclaimed that pirates had seized the passengers and scuttled the ship for the sake of a thousand pounds reputedly resting in the wallet of one of the passengers. But what pirate worth his salt would jettison a ship as fine as the Joyita? Other theorists argue that a waterspout struck Joyita and pointed to her damaged superstructure as evidence. But careful examination of the damage by qualified experts indicated that it was, in all likelihood, the result only of wallowing unmanned in the pounding...