Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That goddam Elizabeth," Barnet would rant, "she's in there with Cobourn [his own boss] every day, pushing her way into everything...
Playboy, now celebrating its 25th anniversary and straining to elevate itself from a swamp of newer and raunchier skin magazines, dispatched Chan to perpetrate a photo spread on "Girls of the Ivy League." Chan admitted that the Southwest Conference was Playboy's first choice, but the magazine decided that the Ivies have an irresistible mystique. "Especially now that women have entered the men's domain, everybody's mystified," said Chan. "There's a sexual fascination. What are these women like?" Touchy, it turns out. Chan's visit provoked feminist protests on six campuses and touched...
...shooting for the film was slow and difficult. The first scene called for the camera to swoop down on a Georgia swamp, where Kermit is discovered sitting on a log in the middle of a pond, playing a banjo. The decision had been made to try for the realism of actual photography, rather than to fake scenes with process shots. So a watertight tank was built, and into the tank went a small television camera and all 6 ft. 3 in. of Jim Henson. (Muppet performers often cannot see directly what their hands are doing or what the other Muppets...
...swamp scene was by no means the most complicated. The script calls for a Hollywood talent scout (played by a hu man actor, Dom DeLuise) who has strayed into the swamp to paddle by, discover Kermit and show him a copy of Variety that contains, by chance, an ad urging "all frogs who want to become rich and famous" to come to Hollywood. But down the road lurks Doc Hopper (played by Charles Durning), who wants this particular talented frog to shill for his fast-food chain, which specializes in French fried frogs' legs. Kermit encounters all of his Muppet...
When Crews' father left the swamp to go home to Bacon County, Georgia, he took a little money and a gold watch, inscribed "To Ray Crew, Pioneer Builder of the Tamiami Trail." He left behind a testicle, lost to the raging case of gonorrhea he contracted during their brief and unsatisfactory coupling...