Word: frogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naming animals that morning. He was working on the mammals and was doing pretty well until all of a sudden he got stuck at hippopotamus. To tell you the truth, I didn't blame the guy. All along he had been coming up with simple names like "frog," "mouse," "cat." And then, out of the blue, he comes up with a complicated name like "hippopotamus." I mean, even "elephant" was stretching things a bit, and "kangaroo" was a positive extreme. But "hippopotamus"??? I said to him, "Couldn't you just call it a 'fat' or, at most, a 'fattamus...
...wasn't her usual gig, but Lena Home, 55, got turned on to Sesame Street by her grandchildren. There she was, reassuring Kermit the frog and singing Kermit's favorite song, It's Not That Easy Being Green, which is all about having green skin. "It's a highly personal song to me," she explained. "It is the same for me as it is for Kermit...
...NATO member states, Greece and Turkey. Expanding Soviet interest in the nearby Middle East and Mediterranean has given this 43,000-sq. mi. enclave new strategic importance. Although the Kremlin is so confident of Bulgarian loyalty that no Russian troops are stationed there, the Soviets have deployed "Frog" and "Skud" ground-missile installations, which are manned by Bulgarians...
...movie was Reynolds' own deliverance. Overnight he became the Frog Prince of Hollywood. He made two more pictures in breathless succession, Fuzz and the forthcoming Shamus. Last week he was on location in Little Rock, Ark., shooting McKlusky with Director Joe Sargent. Sargent admires Reynolds' "ballsiness and talent" and says, "He has the same kind of craft as McQueen and Newman...
Worst of all seem to be the frogs. Before he produced the epic named after the species, George Edwards had a kind of frog fetish; even the door knocker on his studio bungalow was shaped like one. Now that he has got to know 2,000 of them, he says: "I hate them. They're cold, slimy, and they pee all over you." Ray Milland knew he disliked them from the beginning. "I'm not touching one damned frog," he told Edwards, who got a stand-in for the death scene...