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...carries a golf club all of which makes him resemble an anxious pre med before an exam more than a movie producer In the second act, Derrah's creepy qualities intensity as he sprouts fangs and his skin turns green Writhing like a dismembered lizard, he cries. "I have a million movies! And do you know where they are! They're in my blood! They're churning around in my blood...

Author: By Ted Osius, | Title: Where 'Angel' Fears To Tread | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

...expert on the "terrible lizard" separates fact from fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Debunking Dinosaur Myths | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...that an English fossil hunter first identified some newly discovered teeth as the detritus of extinct reptiles. (Dinosaur means "terrible lizard" in Greek.) Ever since that time, experts have been squabbling almost as furiously as did the reptiles themselves. In the 19th century, Yale's Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia, the leading collectors in the U.S., feuded so bitterly over fossil sites in the badlands of Wyoming that their teams came close to combat. Today the skirmishing is more genteel, although no less forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Debunking Dinosaur Myths | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario's alternative choice to show "the glories of America in a patriotic and inspirational way": Vegas Lounge Lizard Wayne Newton, who is in his element crooning before gamblers clutching highballs and waitresses. Such undesirable Beach Boys fans as George Bush, Michael Deaver and Nancy Reagan (a closet B.B. groupie) thought Watt was out of tune and touch. The Great Conductor himself, Ronald Reagan, called Watt into the Oval Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 18, 1983 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Goanna, n.: a giant climbing lizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Guide to Strine | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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