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...spends a good portion of the The Frog Prince rolling his eyes. As the prince, he dispenses scads of flowery phrases he obviously does not believe or even understand. Dawson's facial expressions and zingy one-liners provide much of the play's humor. After his confrontation with the hag, he declares, "I've got just one thought to leave you with: Monarchy!" When the hag first demands the flowers from him, he refuses, taunting her with a juvenile, "Tough...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Telling Fairy Tales | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

...seemed, married a man named Raymundo de Larrain in 1977. She was 80 years old, he was 47--it was what you might call a summer/dead-of-winter romance. He was a Chilean ballet director; she a toothless, crippled hag worth millions. But he loved her, he said. So when she ripped up her will and wrote out a new one leaving everything to him, he did not think to protest...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Dollar Diplomacy | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...your viewing comprehension, Komachi is a 99-year-old hag who, as a heartless beauty some 80 years before, had refused to yield to a suitor unless he paid her a visit every night for 100 nights; on the 100th night, he died from frustration and expectation...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Noh Doze | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...watch Science Fiction Theater and other taboo shows with the sound on very low. My folks were also prudent about the movies I could see. They had taken me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when I was six, and when the wicked queen turned into a hag and a skeleton crumbled into pieces, I burst into tears and started shaking. For three or four nights I had to crawl into bed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...victim told police that a hag containing clothing, keys and shoes--a total of $150 in property--disappeared from the track area at the ITT last Friday while he was jogging...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Commuter Train Kill Youth At Central Square T Station | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

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