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Mark Linn-Baker), whom McAnuff apparently fantasizes as clones of Waiting for Godot's Estragon and Vladimir. Stage left features the ornate living quarters of the Red Dragon, Manfred Von Richthofen (John Vickery), who is sometimes joined by his adjutant (Jeffrey Jones) and a swishy fellow pilot in the Flying Circus named Hermann Goering (Bob Gunton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slain Dragon | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...classics like Degas' Dancers Practicing at the Bar and Seurat's Bathing to canvases by American painters Winslow Homer (Crab Fishing off Yarmouth) and John Sloan (Picnic Grounds). There are also reproductions of a medieval tapestry, History of Venus, and several sculptures, notably St. George and the Dragon by Fritz Preiss and Fulda's 11th century antependium for Basel Cathedral. An audience favorite is Norman Rockwell, who has four Saturday Evening Post covers this year. As always, the pageant winds up with Da Vinci's Last Supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: In Laguna Beach, a Living Louvre | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...wise Chinese philosopher once said. "Don't feed a small dragon." We have fed our tax dragon much too well, and much too long. I strongly urge the clear thinking people of Cambridge who are not pursuing selfish interests, and who are concerned with the long-term economic health of Cambridge, to vote NO on both issues dealing with Proposition 2 1/2 override on Election Day, April 13th. John B. Vidak

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposition 2 1/2 | 4/7/1982 | See Source »

...fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. ?Stephen Vincent Ben?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belfast: Nothin's Worth Killing Someone | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...barbed, and in corrugated iron. (You could make your fortune in corrugated iron here.) Great sheets of it are slabbed up in front of government buildings and on the "peace line" that separates the Catholic Falls Road from the Protestant Shankill. In the centers of the streets are "dragon's teeth"?huge squares of stone arranged in uneven rows to prevent fast getaways. Downtown in the "control zone," no car may be parked unattended. Solitary figures sit like dolls behind the wheels to prove there is no bomb. Armored personnel carriers, called "pigs" by the children, poke their snouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belfast: Nothin's Worth Killing Someone | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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