Word: frogging
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Some have critters on them -- a snail crawling round the base, or a worried- looking frog leaning backward; one piece, Blind Sea Turtle Cup, 1968, is borne on the back of a turtle laboriously crawling its way across a sandbox. Yet curiously enough, they look mysterious rather than cute. Victorian potters like Mintons produced a plethora of whimsical, curate's-joke animal majolica, laden with cows and sheep and bees and other homely creatures; the surface of earlier French Palissy ware was encrusted with reptiles and insects to the point where the plate became an unusable plaque...
...seen then and there--in the theater. So we've succumbed to the times and have decided to print encapsulated movie reviews from pervious issues of 15 Minutes. We have, however, declined using the rating symbol so popular with many publications, be it a star, a turkey, or dead frog for that matter. Let's hoe that most films are complex enough and interesting enough to rise above such confining definitions...
...these windows and doorways hang T-shirts, most of them sporting self-deprecating slogans about Canada's relationship with the United States. Others are marked with a grinning frog--the mascot, a la Mickey Mouse, that symbolizes the Quebecois secession movement...
...novel centers on a legendary event: The birth of a child, who is born half-human, half-frog. The child is alternately cast as a demon, a victim of a diagnosable medical disease and a Christ-child; his mother, Magdalena, is similarly a divided character, a whore/saint...
Visiting Animator: John Matthews--will feature Curious George, Frog and Toad Together, Morris Goes to School and Uncle Elephant. Saturday, Feb. 15, 1 p.m. Will present and discuss Ralph S. Mouse and Stanley and the Dinosaurs. Sunday, Feb. 16, 1 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium. $3 for MFA members, students and seniors; $3.50. $5 for two-program series for MFA members, students, and seniors; $6 for two-program series...