Word: dragone
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...dragon's throne" is a chair with a metal seat and back. After being strapped into the chair, the victim is subjected to electric shocks in graduated amounts, usually until he confesses or-passes out. Another technique is "the telephone," in which the torturer continuously slaps the prisoner on the ear with a cupped hand, often rupturing the eardrum. A failed dental student, now a Rio policeman, has refined still another technique. The "mad dentist," as he is known, straps a prisoner into his dentist's chair, drills until he hits a nerve and keeps probing until...
...Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir: "If a creature from outer space met him, it would run in fear." But her sharpest arrows are saved for the Premier herself. In a column called "Madame Kingdom," she compared Mrs. Golda Meir to the reincarnation of the three furies rolled into one, "a dragon who pretends to be St. George." Golda was also Lady Macbeth, Medusa, a witch and Sophie Portnoy. When Moshe Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon lost in their bids for the Premiership Sylvie wrote: "These two generals are only good to fight and frighten Arabs. But they are afraid...
SINCE PUSEY goes to uncharacteristic lengths of self-dramatization in recounting his role as St. George in the early '50's production that featured McCarthy as dragon, it is important to analyze the content of his actions. For Pusey holds out his response as the prime vindication of his liberal system...
...managed to lodge and rehearse a 19-member cast in the White Way Hotel, where his brother-in-law is the hotel manager. Miller's line of credit consists of exactly 67? cash (in the playwright's pocket) and $1,200 in unpaid hotel bills. Suddenly a dragon of a hotel inspector is breathing fire down everyone's neck. Fortuitously, a backer appears. At one of many crucial and hilarious moments, Miller, with no ink in his pen, frantically tries to pierce his wrist and draw blood so that the angel can sign the contract. From then...
...This is the dragon's day, the devourer...