Word: toads
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...Sing the word ‘toad,’ beginning on a low pitch (for your range) and instantly sliding up in pitch in glissando (like a siren...
...Frogs Make a Right? When Australians imported cane toads from Venezuela in 1935 to eat the beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes
...Pullman's young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics put Shrek on their 10 Best lists, it should have come as no surprise that a musical for little kids called A Year with Frog and Toad wound up on Broadway last year--and even got a Tony nomination for Best Musical...
...obscuring the other, they illuminate the strange subtexts they have in common. At one point Moore and O'Neill bring in the mad scientist Dr. Moreau (as in The Island of--yet another bad movie), and the grotesque talking animals Moreau breeds become a sinister take on Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows and the talking rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, as well as--this is virtuosity in action, folks--the real-life 19th century painter Gustave Moreau. What could have been just a satisfyingly dark thriller becomes a sharp-witted gloss on the scientific and sexual obsessions...
...pressed for time, bar-hoppers have the option of taking out dinner from Christopher’s and enjoying it in neighboring Toad. Here, although it was barely past 10 p.m., a crowd had already formed around a modern artist. “Never a cover!” and “Live music every night!” were only a couple of the endorsements that cheerful customers sang out as they milled about in the relaxed atmosphere. “You can’t get better music,” claimed bartender Greg Ghazil. He wasn?...