Word: undertoad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book, one of Garp's sons mistakes a warning about an undertow where he goes swimming and comes to believe that a giant frog, an "undertoad," menaces him. It becomes a symbol for all the hidden dangers of modern life. The film never locates its undertoad and thus never confronts the true subject of the book. It is all just body surfing on a placid pond. -By Richard Schickel
...Cradle, with its "karass," and the casually philosophical "So it goes," from Slaughterhouse-Five. The end of the decade be longed to Irving and Garpomania: a choice of paperback in six delicious cover colors and T shirts reading I BELIEVE IN GARP and BEWARE OF THE UNDERTOAD-a phrase that Irving attributes to Son Brendan, who once misunderstood a warning about swimming in the ocean...
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