Predator: Ruthless, but somewhat on the shy side (hence the camouflage and cloaking), probably because humans tend to make disparaging comments about its
crablike face.
In the
crablike fashion of the book's title, Grass--as Paul--closes in on his literary prey, steps back, lunges forward again, before finally attacking it, head on, in a few pages of cool, documentary reportage.
When he really had the crowd frothing, he turned to the vets, pumping his
crablike arms, and quacked: "Stand up, boys--TAKE A BOW
Now his frail hand moved across it with
crablike speed.
Here are a few of the more resonant close-ups: a man and his beloved, in silhouette--he nobly stooping, she tenderly supplicating--coming together for a kiss; a half-drowned sailor washed ashore, his weak fingers stirring
crablike in the sand; a man and his beloved, separated by force, their joined hands cruelly wrenched asunder, fingertips dragging (the last time I saw this hoary device was in Adam Sandler's Big Daddy).
Now, molecular biologists have confirmed these suspicions by examining the DNA from different crustacean families within the order Decapoda, which contains all the
crablike species.
Other engagingly colorful characters include Mike's slinky, snake-haired receptionist girlfriend Celia (Jennifer Tilly), the crotchety office overseer Roz (Bob Peterson) and the old-school,
crablike big boss Waternoose (James Coburn).
On a few occasions, the animals were also observed attempting to use the crista dentata on the ischium of Mxp3 endopods in a
crablike manner.
He speaks of food in rhapsodic movement metaphors while progressing across the kitchen stage in large, broken,
crablike phrases while supporting himself on tabletops and chairs.
Fossorial or burrowing scorpions have large, strong,
crablike claws with great crushing power and spend almost all their life in their burrow, moving actively from the entrance to catch their food.
CREEPY FEATURES:
Crablike claws help it move through hair
He who has scuttled,
crablike, to the right on Europe and is now tough enough not to frighten the Eurosceptic wing when a new leader is eventually chosen.
