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Word: toads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events of world-class exaggeration, the tongue likes to disconnect itself from the past and race off obviously astride any passing enthusiasm, like toad of toad hall. A modest example occured during the trial of Elvis Presley's doctor in memphis a few weeks ago; Elvis was fervently described as a musical genius." genius is one of the choice words of breathlessness; if presley was a musical genius what are we to say to Bethevon ? last week a reviewer in the New York Times wrote that "the fecundity of the beatles is a phenomenon unmatched in the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A World of Exaggeration! | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Although it serves no food, Toad's Place deserves mention here. Located on Chapel St. right across from Stillman Library ("it can really be a pain when you're trying to study in the Stillman stacks--a Yalie), Toad's is renamed as probably the best rock club in town. Deceptively large inside, Toad's Place manages to draw some of the finest musical talent on the East Coast.PhotoThe Harvard Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slaking a Connecticut Thirst | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...best place to eat, not fancy, but fun, is Gentrees, a little var and restaurant across from Davenport," she says. "And the best place to drink, though it's a little expensive, is the Greenery, down on Chapel St. And you should make sure you go to Toad's place, a concert hall on York St, where they serve drinks till 2:30 a.m. And then there is..." But wait, you break in, not knowing the end is near, "Why do you know so much about the Fun Spots...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, SPECIAL TO THE WHAT IS TO BE DONE | Title: Weekend Odyssey in New Haven | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...animals remain a child's earliest modes of transportation to the province of fantasy. Sesame Street, whose pervasive commercialism makes Disney's appear dwarfish, provides a world of tactile monsters; Sendak's night creatures and Arnold Lobel's Homeric tales of friendship between Frog and Toad, Dr. Seuss's Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, and the omnipresent Snoopy and Woodstock are leaders in a procession that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human is usually waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lively, Profitable World of Kid Lit | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...course, is a lot denser and meaner than in Peking, but for a time Koch thought that the vision might translate at least partly to New York. A transit strike there last spring swelled the ranks of the city's commuting bicyclists to nearly Chinese proportions. Like Toad of Toad Hall discovering the motorcar, Koch seemed to conceive a passion for the bike. As an expression of his enthusiasm, he spent $300,000 from the city's depleted treasury to install 6-ft.-wide bike lanes along two avenues in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great Bicycle Wars | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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