Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China be Christian today...
...George Romney showed up at a costume party as a knight, accompanied by a fair young maiden whose hand he had just won (see cut). The choice of dress was symbolic. Later, Romney rode forth to battle, astride his trusty Rambler to engage what he considered the modern U.S. dragon: the dinosaur-like big car. For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three have...
Strange Treadfellows. In Philadelphia, a classified advertisement in the Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society offered to trade a "live adult Komodo Dragon for Chrysler fire engine and three snowshoes...
...kill a pet canary. Exploring his musty attic, a man dons an Edwardian striped blazer and boater, is promptly whisked backwards through time to the lazy summer afternoons of his youth. A 12th century armored knight tilts tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked in mythic watercolors: "Her upper body was all moon pearl . . . and her lower body all slithering ancient green-black coins...
...such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...