1.   A lobster is a short-sighted bottom-dweller that claws its way around, has a hard shell, a minuscule brain and no backbone.

2.   Elizabeth Berkley has graduated from after-school television to play the heroine, a prostitute who comes to Vegas and claws her way up from lap dancer to topless dancer.

3.   See the elderly, the large and the variously disabled claw their way up the stairway I call Mt. Hallidie!

4.   The morning sun flares as the Tortoise claws its way through the raw body of the Sacramento Valley.