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...long between fire-breathing sequences; Robbins knows what the kids have come to see. With theater-rattling thumps, our dragon stalks his turf, and like a B-52 with scales, swoops over hapless victims, booming displeasure with the human race. Great care has been taken to construct a plausible lair for the villain, a spooky underground grotto containing an Olympic-sized pool complete with burning water and oozing ceiling. The little baby dragons, who display a revolting appetite for freshly killed princess and give Galen some initial resistance, may provoke more than a few people to go home and flush...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Puff the Magic | 7/10/1981 | See Source »

...feature creatures who actually live up to the descriptions offered by terrified witnesses during the buildup. He has scale as well as scales, snorts realistic fire and generally represents an artful blending of mechanical and special-effects work. He lurks in a grand, spooky lair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sorcerer and Apprentice | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...cuts a formidable figure these days--football quarterback on a hot streak--making the long climb to his Kirkland lair. But somehow a name like that seems to demand a suit of armour and a damsel in distress. Yet Judson Burke St. John will settle for a plastic football helmet and a triumph with his mates over the dragons of New Haven...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Marquis of the Multiflex | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

Egasti and company are especially wary of Princeton's lightning quick lair of attackmen. All-American Dave Huebeck, Bob Thomas, and George Brush--all natives of lax-happy Baltimore--combined for 98 points last year, and all have returned this season...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen to Face Tigers Today, Seek Eighth Straight Victory | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson squash team lured yet another unwilling victim into their Hemenway lair yesterday, this time polishing off Trinity 9-0. In three matches the opposition has yet to win a game off the racquetmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Breeze Past Trinity, 9-0 | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

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