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...Sweetwater Cafe, on Boylston Place,was a little too damn cheerful. Walking in thedoor, I almost smacked into a wooden parrot.Hanging from the ceiling above was a largemenagerie of coy animals; an inflatable iguana, ashark, a toad or two. By the door was a plaquewith the Sweetwater's legend, a ribald and twistedtale that boiled down to "We made...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...that good manners, noble bearing and even heroic action cannot overcome class distinctions. He tries to woo an uncommon commoner (played brightly by Newcomer Shari Headley) without revealing his identity, and encounters resistance from her father, who, since he is Akeem's boss, cannot help mistaking him for a toad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Taming of Eddie Murphy COMING TO AMERICA | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...after weeks of dusty browsing around this great country, I stopped for coffee at Toad's Place, out in western Iowa, and bet my old gang a nickel on Bush. It may be catching. The Washington Post's David Broder last week inhaled the fall vapors and wrote, "The recognition is growing in the political community that odds favor the Republicans' nominating the next President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: For Real Fun, Watch the G.O.P. | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Birds do it, bees do it, but every year tens of thousands of British toads get squashed trying to do it. During migration from their winter woodland homes to springtime breeding ponds, the lovelorn toads frequently croak while crossing the country's roads. Shocked at this tragedy, Britain's Fauna and Flora Preservation Society has opened the country's first toad tunnel in Buckinghamshire. After a week of operation, officials were optimistic that the underpass would do the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: How the Toads Cross the Road | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Four years of research went into the passageway under a road near the River Thames, which should help some 10,000 toads to meet their mates in one piece. Puffed up by its initial success, the F.F.P.S. hopes to open several dozen more tunnels at toad crossings all over England. It is already chewing over the idea of opening a terrapin underpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: How the Toads Cross the Road | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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