Squid squirms its way into Americans' hearts

Chicago Sun-Times | June 8, 1989| | Copyright

For many of us, our first view of a squid was from inside the Nautilus in the film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." As we watched, horrified, the deep-sea submarine piloted by Captain Nemo was grasped in the tentacles of the gigantic beast with the huge, googly eyes and malevolent parrot beak. This was our very own "Alien," a creature that was not only awesomely ugly, but mysterious. When it was not pinioning hapless ships in its suckers, it was escaping its enemies by emitting whooshing clouds of brownish-black ink.

A suburban '60s kid, brought up on "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and ...

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