Word: frogging
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...Pete Rozelle, czar of all he surveyed in pro football, was on the phone to the White House. "Beat them now, Mr. President," he said, "and beat them big, or they'll be muscling in everywhere−the U.S. Tennis Open, the America's Cup, the jumping-frog contest in Calaveras County...
There is a bright spot. William P. Reimann's large, stone-cut sundial is strikingly handsome, a functional product of a fine sense of graphic design. Reimann's other work, a frog fountain, is a disappointment, however. The idea isn't all bad--when the pool is full, only the frog is visible; when it's empty, a "malevolent" turtle rises. Yet somehow it just doesn't belong outside a subway station. "The turtle and frog basin, Reimann explains, "attempts to combine creatures native to the region to provide one of several foci intended to organize a hierarchy of visual...
Kermit the Frog should be our Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Then he can spread his good cheer to one more part of this troubled world. Richard C. O'Donnell Cincinnati...
...means the most complicated. The script calls for a Hollywood talent scout (played by a hu man actor, Dom DeLuise) who has strayed into the swamp to paddle by, discover Kermit and show him a copy of Variety that contains, by chance, an ad urging "all frogs who want to become rich and famous" to come to Hollywood. But down the road lurks Doc Hopper (played by Charles Durning), who wants this particular talented frog to shill for his fast-food chain, which specializes in French fried frogs' legs. Kermit encounters all of his Muppet Show pals and such assorted...
...style is not frenzied-he is notably calm, in fact-but it is unusually intense. It suits a man widely deferred to as a wizard, but it would not do, say, for a renowned comic performer, a wisecracking green frog. And the curious truth about this gaunt, bearded, rather ascetic-looking craftsman, as he admits, is that "my nature is not particularly witty." He is funny only with Kermit on his arm, and the same thing seems to be true of Frank Oz and the other Muppet people...