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...encounter in Part I is at the Troll King's lair. As half the floor of the Guthrie opens upward like the hold of a cargo ship, white fumes belch forth as from an anteroom to hell. The trolls are quite droll. They are dressed in inky black frock coats and robes, their heads are chalk-white and they sport Miss Piggy snouts. The Troll King (Frederick Neumann) immediately recognizes Peer as a closet troll and lays down the primal law of trolldom, which is the leitmotiv of the entire play. As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In the Realm of the Trolls | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Both teams travel to two-game, total-goals NCAA quarterfinal series next weekend. UNH visits the West's second seed, while St. Lawrence journeys to the lair of the West's top seed. At the Boston Garden St. Lawrence 0 0 2--2 New Hampshire...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: UNH Tops Saints, 5-2, to Take Third | 3/13/1983 | See Source »

...these are offered, unfortunately, in the new version, which stars Kinski, flat of voice, spirit and chest, as Irena. There is a fake anthropological prologue in which Hollywood's tribe of all-purpose primitives is seen tethering its maidens rather uncomfortably close to a black leopard's lair, thus establishing Irena's heritage, lost in the mists of the backlot. And there is Malcolm McDowell, quite persuasively feline, as her brother. In his human form he is something of a tomcat, which, of course, means he keeps turning into a big cat, with unfortunate results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flesh and Flash | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Restricting ownership of handguns will "deprive the law-abiding citizenry of its right to protect itself," Clark said, adding, "It would be like putting sheep in the fox's lair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handgun Forum | 10/16/1981 | See Source »

Scene switches to jungle. Jungle? I think I may be going mad. Apparently outside Cassadine lair. Couple asleep in the undergrowth. Young. Trendy. First on line to buy tickets for an E.L.O. concert? No, they have come to rescue a friend, Scorpio, who is in Cassadine's clutches. They are Luke and Laura. Apparently account for the show's "youth appeal." Luke wears a shirt with cutoff sleeves and a gold chain. Laura is illegitimate daughter of Dr. Lesley Webber. Dr. Rick Webber adopted her when he married her mother but now Rick and Lesley are divorced. Pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: General Hospital: Critical Case | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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