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Some of the more interesting delicacies on the menu: pigs' feet cassoulet, beaver confit, stuffed goose's neck, eel gratin and frog tart. Other attractions were a 4-ft. 5-in. candied Eiffel Tower, a 10-ft. vegetarian paella dish and a gigantic cooking pot 10 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep. The buffet organizers topped off the pot presentation with a pinch of culinary cuteness: they had a jazz band called Haricots Rouges (translation: Red Beans) play music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Care for a Frog Tart, Monsieur? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...films like The Muppets Take Manhattan, as well as star turns in the toy department, he hasn't forgotten his lily-pond roots. Next month Muppet Creator Jim Henson and more than 200 of Kermit's friends are getting together to toast America's best-known frog on his 30th birthday. Called The Muppets, a Celebration of 30 Years, the one-hour CBS special will feature Fozzie Bear as master of ceremonies and Big Bird, and, at the Green One's insistence, will showcase the talents of Miss Piggy, who first starred on the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1985 | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...liners offer rates 15% to 20% below those of most Western ships. Travelers give Soviet cruises high marks. A group from Lisieux, France, who sailed the Norwegian fjords on the Leonid Brezhnev in May, was enchanted by everything from crew members, who danced "Russian," to inexpensive vodka, and frog's legs for dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Red Star Rises on the High Seas | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...second chamber. This generates a noxious spray of caustic benzoquinones, which explodes from its body at a boiling 212 degreesF. What is more, the fluid is pumped through twin rear nozzles, which can be rotated, like a B-17's gun turret, to hit a hungry ant or frog with bull's-eye accuracy. When Rue learned about the bombardier, she says, "I fell in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drafting the Bombardier Beetle ^ | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...thinks he may have found another subject for a series he is planning on "Great Humbugs of the World." He interviews the famed "Cockney Venus" in her dressing room after a performance. On the wall hangs a poster of the aerialiste drawn, as the subject coarsely confides, by "some Frog dwarf "; it is signed "Toujours, Toulouse." Fevvers plies the reporter with champagne and assures him, "I never docked via what you might call the normal channels, sir, oh, dear me, no; but, just like Helen of Troy, was hatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Wings of a New Age Nights At the Circus | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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