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...then there is Frogs (1972). The filmers interviewed froggers, French-fried-frog-leg chefs, frog-formaldehyders, and frog-jewelry freaks. There are lots of neat warty shots, all culminating in the Calaveras County California frog-jumping contest. Owners and managers and trainers and just plain rowdies stomp up and down on the platform trying to scare their amphibians into leaping. The film ends with the soaring elongation of frogs flying for the edge of the platform. Realism gets its ya-ya's out when one bounces off the camera...
...Mahal is non-stop energy. When he sings, his body is constantly in motion: his head bobs from side to side: his eyebrows leap up and down; his hips grind rhythmically; his foot stomps and his facial expressions never stop changing. If he's not accompanying himself with his Mississippi National steel-bodied acoustic guitar, then he'll play the piano or banjo or mandolin of kalimba or maracas or Spirit of '76 Fife. His raspy voice sometimes turns lyrics into a stammer reminiscent of Otis Redding. At other times, words are replaced altogether by suggestive mumbles or a bent...
...Good Ship Lollipop was obviously not quite the thing for Accra. So instead, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Shirley Temple Black, 46, jogged a local high-life stomp before a delighted crowd. En paste for less than three months, Shirley has already started coming to grips with local tribal languages, tossing off "akwaaba " (welcome in Twi) and "oy-iwala donn " (thank you in Ga) without even a hint of her notorious childhood lisp. Resident Americans who greeted Shirley with skepticism now call her a solid plus for Uncle Sam. Said one Ghanaian official happily: "It's good to have...
...preceded on the dance floor by the Philly-Dog, the Boston Monkey, the Boogaloo, the Frug, the Roach, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, Jack-the-Ripper, the Fly, La Pachanga, the Dish Rag, the Slop, the Hully Gully, the Horse, the Twist and the Madison (renamed the Stomp). And before that, as exhumed by late-night World War II movies, there was Frank Sinatra jitterbugging...
There are sculptures of actors from the 14th century A.D., one of them dancing, clappers in hand. And then there are the horses, the parade of horses that romp, stomp or buckle to their work in the reconstructed procession for some forgotten emperor. A magical flying horse from the 2nd century A.D. takes off for an uncertain heaven from the back of a somewhat startled sparrow...