Word: frogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swallowed, the mainstay of these listings for the last month or so, has been temporarily cancelled because of technical problems. A frog in its throat, maybe...
...nuclear warfare a decade before Dr. Strangelove (Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century), played with the mechanics of film making (Duck Amuck, which might be called the Persona of animated cartoons), and lampooned every movie genre from cops to swashbucklers. His One Froggy Evening, starring a mysterious singing frog called Michigan J., is a morality play in cameo that comes as close as any cartoon ever has to perfection...
More profound alterations can be seen in The Frog King, known popularly as The Princess and the Golden Ball. It is the tale of the repulsive frog who retrieves the little lady's toy from a pond on condition that she take him back to the palace to share her plate and bed. In many modern versions, the standoffish princess eventually kisses the frog, who instantly becomes a handsome, marriageable prince. In the original, the brat smashes the frog against a wall, and the bridegroom springs magically from the breakage. This is obviously not a sentimental story with...
...proportionately. Officials of the Cost of Living Council estimate that increases in the price of oil imports alone will inject about $5 billion of pure inflation into the economy, substantially raising already oppressive living costs. And, says COLC Staffer Charles Owens: "That is just the first hop of this frog...
...undertook an inspection of their varied skins on the level, if not of the cell, at least on that of the pore. Each point where light hit the tiniest break of texture or color was set down in a curious, tightly circling calligraphy that resembled beads, or agglomerations of frog spawn. Despite their iconic serenity when seen from a distance, Raffael's paintings disclose a bejeweled profusion of incident close up. "There's just no end to reality," says Raffael. "You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other...