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Author: By Sam A. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pub Crawls | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...Never a cover, live music seven nights a week.” No more than 20 feet wide, Toad is all business. There’s a bar, some seats, a small stage and alcohol. The Improper Bostonian named it one of Boston’s Best in 2000, writing “a honeycomb hideout for the hipster and those in the know...

Author: By Sam A. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pub Crawls | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...flowers, those sleek, over bred showdogs. You can boil the wild weeds, eat them, put them on wounds. Their names are surrounded by an atmosphere of gossip. What goes on between Pokeweed and Bluebead Lilly? The groundlings-or groundhogs- want to know. What conspiratorial dialogue is whispered between Blue Toad flax and Monkshood? What soliloquies from Trumpet Creeper, from Lady's Thumb, from the grizzled Salt-Marsh Fleabane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Considering the Lillies (and Other Flowers) of the Field | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...couldn't use to enhance a fight. His heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas, trash can lids and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. Another Yuen rule: if it slithers, hops or scoots, hire it! Snakes in 1980's The Buddhist Fist; a man-size toad in the phantasmagorical Miracle Fighters of 1982; rats in Shaolin Drunkard. In the 1977 Broken Oath (the last movie Yuen action-choreographed before he turned director with the Jackie Chan Snake in Eagle's Claw), lovely, severe Angela Mao plays with scorpions; she always has a few handy to place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yuen Wo-Ping, Martial Master | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...director), playing dim-witted Delmar in the Coen brothers' sly and shaggy saga of redemption on the run posed certain problems. None was more daunting than authentically conveying Delmar's belief that one of his fellow escapees from a 1930s Mississippi chain gang had been turned into a toad by backwoods sirens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Boffo Actors Worth Checking Out | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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