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...thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly labeled his son: "You pig, you frog, you hyena, you almost-Egyptian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: African Comedy | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

There was nothing tired about his playing. Instead of the brassy blare that comes from ordinary trumpets, Chefs horn usually sounded something like a clarinet with a frog in its throat-intimate, soft, agile. Starting at fast tempo, he doubled it to play his rapid-fire arabesques, never muffed a note right down to the pointedly abrupt ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Listen to Those Zsounds | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Black Lagoon (Universal-International, 3-D) is about a "gill man," half-fish, half-man, who looks like a frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloodstream Green | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...dies with them; the baby is thrown out with the bath water. Unity, yes; uniformity, no...Let's keep our contradiction and chaos, even at the cost of consistency if necessary...I would rather go to hell with the banner of contradiction and chaos before me than be frog-marched into heaven under the mean whip of consistency. Because then, at least, I would go to hell a free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...children. Perhaps because he is opposed this time by as potent an organization as the Boy Scouts, Webb is considerably more mellow than in his Mr. Belvedere days: he strikes only one urchin (and then with only a blob of ice cream), and soon loses his heart to a frog-voiced eight-year-old (George Winslow). Webb takes over an unruly troop of Scouts because, as a writer of TV children's shows, he thinks he should know more about the spaceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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