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...walking penny," says Amy Greene, 54, a makeup consultant at the chic Henri Bendel store. Garcia found that her hair had a high copper content; he decreed she must stop drinking her usual 16 cups of tea a day. Now, Greene says, "my skin glows. If a dragon came in, I'd slay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: The Weight Shrinks | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...favorite was a marble-moving machine," says Stefan Kanfer, who wrote the main story. Kanfer, senior editor of the Books section, long ago decorated his office with a stuffed lion, a windup dragon and games purchased from sidewalk vendors. He admits that toys are on his mind a lot, so much so, he confesses, "that I began thinking about this story last April. I was told, however, that it had to wait for Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 22, 1986 | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...Kites. To indulge those soaring spirits further, check out the goods at Outermost Kites (Faneuil Hall). For $4.95 they'll sell you a dragon kite with an 80-inch streamer tail. A limited edition Sanyo rokkaku kite, complete with Samurai warriors, sells...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...papier-mache cow, wailing loudly, "La vaca es muerta!," while two policemen attempted to pull them to their feet. People were spinning around ecstatically to a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff. A girl stops short: "I'm tripping," she says, her eyes dilated and staring at an image of a dragon overhead...

Author: By Susan L. Kelly, | Title: Milking Sacred Cows | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...that It is out, can King change himself? In the next 14 months he will make three attempts by publishing novels outside the Pop Dread belfry. The Eyes of the Dragon, just completed, is an Arthurian sword-and-sorcery epic written for Naomi, who read Carrie and has since refused to venture into any of her father's other books. Tommyknockers, still being revised, is a sci-fi epic set in the post-Chernobyl era. "It's about how our ability to make gadgets outraces the moral ability" is all King is willing to disclose. Misery, just about completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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