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...myth turns on itself; as Braudy's Prince begins to metamorphose into a frog, she reaches out to other men for confidence and adventure, and to assert her independence. Becoming involved first with a long-haired, melancholic Cajun singer and later with a slick, prurient East Side music critic, she self-deceptively convinces herself that "momentary pleasure won't cause you or your husband later pain...
...Gund Hall, Gene Hackman doesn't do much to foster goodwill between nations as he stalks Frog One in The French Connection. Along with Popeye Doyle, Dirty Harry livens up the weekend and makes the double bill a strong contender for first prize in the Blood and Guts Unorthodox Cops Division...
...then there is Frogs (1972). The filmers interviewed froggers, French-fried-frog-leg chefs, frog-formaldehyders, and frog-jewelry freaks. There are lots of neat warty shots, all culminating in the Calaveras County California frog-jumping contest. Owners and managers and trainers and just plain rowdies stomp up and down on the platform trying to scare their amphibians into leaping. The film ends with the soaring elongation of frogs flying for the edge of the platform. Realism gets its ya-ya's out when one bounces off the camera...
...different emphases. One is a weapon in case of war, and the other is a weapon to deter war. The Pershing is in the second category. The Russians have equipped three Arab nations, Syria, Egypt and Libya, with two types of ground-to-ground missiles: the short-range Frog and the medium-range Scud. The Lance is like the Frog, and the Pershing is like the Scud. In the overall considerations of how to avoid war, a balance of missilery can help. I look at the Pershing as a component of a strategy for deterrence, both psychologically and technologically. Also...
...moment the two individuals are named. Sartre calls this "positive misinformation." Similarly, words can go to the extreme of "non-knowledge" instead of meaning-as-knowledge. This kind of distortion is possible in any language simply because the printed or spoken word is a physical reality. The words "frog" and "ox," for example, possess a sound and image totally unrelated to the animals they conjure up. Sartre contends that a phrase like "The frog that wants to become as big as an ox" contains, in an inextricable blend between materiality and meaning, much more corporeal density than the expression...