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...zebra (Chris Rock), a giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) forsake the friendly confines of Central Park Zoo and end up on you-know-which island off Africa. The plot, by co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and co-writers Mark Burton and Billy Frolick, asks whether a carnivore, the lion, can keep from eating his friends...
...Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club--or "HRDC" to those grooving to the bongo beat of thespian bohemia--are a talented, largely self-appreciative society of entertainers. Much like your humble narrators at FM, these players pander to the cultured, frolick-loving Harvard masses with affordably priced, all-you-can-eat entertainment...
...Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (which is published by Time Warner), pluck out a piece of lazy prose, and print it here: "A monkey called, sounding far and lonesome. The classic jungle sound from old Tarzan movies." Or I could go a step further and mimic Waller, as Billy Frolick does in his new book-length parody, The Ditches of Edison County ("Concave's scream echoed through the canyons and ditches of Edison County, all the way to a farmhouse on the other end of town"). The legal principle that permits us to quote or closely imitate Waller's writing...
...successor, English reformer, Annie Besant, teamed up with Charles L. Leadbeater to continue the flow of occult revelations. Their work was crowned with the discovery of the returned Christ in the person of a 14-year-old boy named Krishnamurti. Leadbeater made the discovery clairvoyantly while watching, Krishnamurti frolick on a beach. He and Besant trained the youth for his mission. Krishnamurti complied, learning to love tennis and sports cars along with Theosophy...
Originally little more than a farmer's calendar, The Old Farmer's Almanac soon began to show its author's convictions. In 1808, taking up the controversy of public v. private schools, he observed: "Fun, frolick and filigree are too much practised at the academies for the benefit of a farmer's boy. Let them have a solid and useful education." Eleven years later he was moved to warn: "Either the body or the mind must be engaged in honest industry; for idleness is like grog -take nothing else and-'you're gone...
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