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...entertain they did--playing the tunes of the sixties and seventies that defined Kerry and Clinton's generation, from "Blowin' in the Wind" to "Teach Your Children Well" to "Puff the Magic Dragon...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Facing The Future or Reaching For the Past? | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...Henley said Democrats were the party of amphibians. Whoopi Golbderg blasted Republicans for taking "ugly pills." Peter, Paul and Mary called Kerry "our own magic dragon," who still "lives and frolics...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Facing The Future or Reaching For the Past? | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...veteran who 20 years ago won critical raves for Bound for Glory but now is more likely to be found scaring coeds in Ray's Evil Toons, says, "Doing DTV films is dangerous for me as a mainstream actor. But I like the taste of danger." Don ("the Dragon") Wilson likes the taste of money. The kick-boxing star had six films released in 13 months, and claims to make $250,000 per. "I tell people I'm not an actor; I'm an action star," he says, and banters about going legit. He answers a phone call and jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THERE SCHLOCK | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...look for an evil principle at work in the heart of things: at sea, the white whale, Moby Dick, would serve the purpose. Around his home in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Melville had to strain himself to turn a locomotive into a dark metaphysic: "Hark! here comes that old dragon again--that gigantic gad-fly of a Moloch--snort! puff! scream!" "Great improvements of the age!" he wrote contemptuously. "Who wants to travel so fast? My grandfather did not, and he was no fool." Earlier in the 19th century, there were those who thought that traveling faster than 20 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL EVIL, OR MAN-MADE? | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

They do. Cinema Europe is a glorious time machine transporting us back 70, 80, 100 years. A train, a dragon, a beautiful face: Look, it moves! It moves us now to relive a time when films were possessed of such ambition, achievement and optimism. Back then, you could believe that nothing mattered more than films--and that they could only get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SILENTS ARE STILL GOLDEN | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

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