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...actors manage to play success fully both for parody and poignancy. Especially dexterous are Janice Rule as the requisite dragon lady and Frank Finlay and Billie Whitelaw as Eddie's brother and sister-in-law. Albert Finney shows again that he is an actor of infinite resource, charm and cunning. But the part does not really test him, does not force him to extend himself and take chances. For most actors it is quite enough to be good. From Finney one has a right to expect more. · Jay Cocks
...unerring, was also eclectic. At the same time he commissioned the painting of Christ enthroned, around 1415, he also commissioned an Apocalypse from a painter whose style was the very reverse of decoration-plain, and freely, almost aggressively, brushed in. One page shows the woman with a seven-headed dragon from the Book of Revelations, "clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." The design, compressed into a few square inches, has a marvelous sweep-the rockfolds echoing the curve of the dragon's tail and repeated...
...whole time she was there," said Julie. To show the rest of the family what the stuff was like, the President poured some from one of the seven bottles he brought back and touched a match to it. For ten minutes the White House dining room was filled with dragon smoke...
...Pacific region." So Nixon could claim at home that he solved the Vietnam war (in Peking just as everyone claimed he would), stopped the "Yellow Hordes" from seeking to extend their influence (there is no evidence to suppose that they had tried in the first place), and pacified the Dragon...
...most basic drive of all rulers -the push for unity, the defense of China's frontiers against outside invaders. Unlike any other in the world, the wall has a vitality of architectural rhythm that gives it a sense of endless movement. It seems to be a slow-moving dragon, the bricks its scales, undulating in the sunlight. Even Richard Nixon's banal description of its might fails to mute the wonder of the morning. "A people that can build a wall like this certainly have a great past to be proud of," he says, "and a people...