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...wizards, Palom and Porom, turned themselves to stone to save their comrades in Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy II for Super Nintendo. The characters were represented by icons 16 pixels wide, with a special icon for every possible combination of poisoned, miniaturized, or turned into a frog. (In this game, turning your opponent into a poisoned, miniaturized frog was a major tactical coup.) Dialogue, like the martyrs’ fateful incantation, “Stone!”, appeared in poorly translated English in little blue text boxes...
...Matthiessen doesn't overly dwell on environmental realpolitik. Birds of Heaven is a record of dedicated wonder in the face of natural beauty and the wisdom that wonder can bring. For, as he writes, "if one has truly understood a crane?or a leaf or a cloud or a frog?one has understood everything...
...face of the tighter city budget, Galluccio proposed an alternative way to fund the skating rink, which he said should be the Cambridge Common’s version of the Boston Common’s Frog Pond...
...comic subtlety. Along with scriptwriter Michael Maltese, he created the bon-vivant skunk Pepe Le Pew, the beep-beep Road Runner and his perennially flummoxed pursuer Wile E. Coyote. They devised brilliant one-offs such as One Froggy Evening, a lovely parable of exploitation (whose singing star, Michigan J. Frog, later became the character logo for the WB network), and the sublime Feed the Kitty, about a bulldog's desperate attempts to protect a kitten prone to domestic disaster. Put that on your short list of cartoons to cherish...
Favorite Winter Olympic sport: Figure skating, for sure. I’ll even abandon work to watch it because I wish I could look like that at Frog Pond...