Word: frogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today Gates, grown very powerful and great, sits at the center of world technology like an immense frog eyeing insect life on the pond surface, now and then consuming a tasty company with one quick dart of the tongue...
Nerdy Mike is a wannabe nightclub crooner. Wallflower Marcia still lives with her parents. Marcia catches Mike's act; they fall for each other and seem headed for happily ever after until Marcia discovers Mike gobbling up fresh frog roadkill. Not your average boy-meets-girl story, off-Broadway's Duet! is a sweetly loopy send-up of '50s Hollywood cliches about love. Wittily weaving such pop culture totems as Hula Hoops and the Ink Spots into a cautionary tale, it's both hip and corny, ironic and romantic. And seriously funny...
...immortal words of Kermit the Frog, it's not easy being green. But Kermit doesn't know what hard is: it is much, much more difficult to be a Teletubby. This is a fact that you are not likely to hear from the mouth of a Tubby; in fact, the actors--yes, those are real actors inside those bright, baby-shaped alien outfits--are contractually forbidden to talk to their adoring public. "My favorite color is green," says Dipsy, played by John Simmit, rolling his eyes. "That's all I'm allowed to say." And if the Teletubby creators...
Kermit the frog began life as muppet creatorJim Henson's aunt's coat. Grover did not start outas a blue monster and Oscar the Grouch wasoriginally orange. In fact, many "star" muppetsbegan as AMs (Any Muppet), new muppets created forbit parts that may later rise in popularity...
...convinced my phone interviewer that social studies is the study of how Weber, Foucault and Habermas have contributed to theories of market share and advertising. I talked about the relationship of the Budweiser frog to the bourgeois public sphere. I said that Coke is a well-marketed product...