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...with director Ed Howard, conjure up the local color with their hilarious sketches: there's Bertha Bumiller, head of the local Smut-Snatching Society, in her green poly suit and orange bouffant wig; Petie Fiske, the woebegone rep from the Greater Tuna Humane Society and his homeless ducks; the toad-voiced chainsmoking Deedee Snavelly; the Rev. Spikes and his "remember the Alamo!" eulogies...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Greater Hilarity Provides Raucous Relief | 10/18/1985 | See Source »

...tragedy. Pondering on what it would be like to be Menelaus, Thersites remarks "to be an ass, were nothing, be is both ass and ox; to be an ox, were nothing, he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule a cat, a finch, a toad, a lizzard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a toe. I would not care, but to be Menelaus, I woud conspire against destiny." Scratching her head, pulling at her suit of rags and slobbering over a bottle of brew, Fasolino's Thersites is convulsive. Excellently staged by Evett, Faselino...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Shakespeare Straight & Tragic | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

Despite the kiss of the beautiful political princess, the toad remains a toad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1984 | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...reason may be that "everybody is always shoving things in his face." Occasionally Jackson comes out to the yard. Sometimes he will ride a red-and-white motor scooter. Sometimes he will take his electric car for a spin. It is a close copy of a vehicle from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland. Outside the iron gates, the fans on the street can see him whizzing along the driveway, playing by himself, and at those times, he is too far away for anyone to see his face at all. ?By Jay Cocks. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

There is only one outlander eagerly awaited at Toad's. Spring will be coming around in a couple of weeks, all flirty and capricious. But in the end lowans know she'll settle down and the whole state will be back doing what it does best-growing things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Chewing the Fat in Iowa | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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