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...Maybe you understand frogs and maybe you don't understand 'em," says Smiley in Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. "Maybe you've had experience and maybe you ain't only an amature, as it were." Seattle animal importer Andy Koffman ain't no amateur. In 1986, while visiting the African nation of Cameroon, Koffman watched a 10-lb. Goliath frog leap 30 ft. across a river, and jumped to a conclusion. "The first thing I thought was, 'Wouldn't it be fun to win the Calaveras contest?' " recalls Koffman...
...Africa (1985). Sydney Pollack's romantic adventure movie showed that Hollywood could still make 'em like it used to, with as much power and more subtlety. Meryl Streep had her most popular role as author Isak Dinesen, her restless heart liberated by the untamed beauty of Kenya...
Actually, I really did put my feet up at one point," George Bush said last week by telephone from the White House. "I did it thinking, 'I'll show 'em I really meant it to be a feet-up meeting.' So I put my feet up on one of those round sofas that were bolted to the deck of the Gorky. Gorbachev and I were leaning over toward one another. There were no inhibitions...
...Lick 'Em, Stick 'Em by H. Thomas Steele (Abbeville; $19.95). Once upon an envelope (circa 1900 to 1930), posters were reduced to the size of postage stamps. Some were tiny comedies -- a giraffe advertising neckwear, a pig promoting lard -- others dazzling designs by Egon Schiele and Rockwell Kent. They became, says the lively text, "the common man's art gallery," and this homage deserves the same stamp...
...Give 'em Hell, Harry...