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1. These were not the pretty, ruffled figurines, dolls, or poster images but narrow, whiplike men and women of fierce expression, their hair cinched back tight, swishing their skirts back and forth as they advanced across the tiny raised stage

2. In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each