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...serves as an ironic commentary on Proteus's infidelity. Greg Cattell Johnson steals the show with his charmingly moronic performance, particularly in his first scene where he laments leaving his family and berate's his dog's lack of emotion. Even the dog gets laughs, yawning and wagging his tail...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Bad Bard in Boston | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...Middle Ages," he charged. "There is a high priesthood; there are mandatory offerings." As hospitals and doctors enjoy more money, he said, "we get more surplus hospital beds, more surplus technology, and we create a medical arms race." Brown contended that the U.S. armed forces "have the highest tail-to-teeth ratio [support-to-combat troops] in the world. Cuts are possible; I say less tail and more teeth." He advocated some form of compulsory national service for young people, including nonmilitary duty. "We serve the country not by just marching around with a rifle, but by aiding the sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Brown's Budget Balancing Act | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...ensuing Wednesday, however, in the comfortable confines of Hemenway Gym, the racquetwomen fell to Yale, a team equal in skill but mentally tougher. Jack Reardon, director of athletics, attended the tail end of that match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moses Was Good, But Not Perfect | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

Viet Nam's motives for twisting the dragon's tail are much less clear. Hanoi might have convinced itself that even a limited Chinese thrust into Viet Nam would bring swift retaliation by some of the Soviet forces arrayed along China's western and northern frontiers. But as for why such tail twisting should now be so popular in Hanoi, some Western observers can only speculate that it is a sign that a group of hard-lining expansionists, led by General Vo Nguyen Giap and Army Chief of Staff Van Tien Dung, are gaining supremacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Brinkmanship on a Hot Border | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Blue Devil was barely discernible among the mass of blue-clothed Duke fanatics. Only his distinctive blue tail, blue trident, and blue face distinguished him. He was hardly the devil Milton would have us believe exists...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: In Search of Crimson | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

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