Word: goblins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dingly dells of Titania and Queen Mab bordered on the badlands of sex, drugs and hallucination. The last two, especially, were never far away, and all three pervade Christina Rossetti's extraordinary narrative poem of the symbolic rape of a girl by the "Little People," Goblin Market. In painting the action was milder, but fairies were shown appearing in dreams to maidens whose sleep, as the phials by the bedside make clear, was induced by opiates. Then there were the magic mushrooms, which famously appear in Sir John Tenniel's illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--the stoned...
...delivers a thoughtful but slightly static performance: he doesn't quite sink his teeth into the Lear-like, madness Titus teeters toward, but he does manage to convince as a brave, basically well-meaning guy who nature probably intended to be a hero. Amaechi chooses to take a playful, goblin-like approach to the treacherous, unrepentant Aaron, which tends to diminish him as a personification of pure evil: he's more Puck than Iago. Jason Mills '99 plays Marcus, the faithful brother and sole figure of reason, as a semicomic counter to Titus, but has a moment of unexpected resonance...
...face. Such enormous pride and success seemed to well up in his eyes, so much so that he must temporarily have lost sense of his embodiment, his feet, arms, the people in ecstasy round him. As his spirit soared, the temptation to rip off his clothes and dance a goblin dance was surely huge. To throw his toned muscles into the adoring crowd, and sublimate himself by exquisitely losing control; for surely all human Gods must look on their bodies with a detached curiosity. Was it me, my drunken apparitions, or had Clinton in a fleeting gest tasted the ambrosia...
Complaining has its uses, but Bush's anger is better directed at the U.N. than at a goblin only the President perceives. If nothing works, if in the end the U.S. must stand alone, then so be it. No matter how unfair, unilateralism is sometimes a superpower...
...Pentagon quickly leaked word of the operation, boasting that the planes had accomplished their mission to "stun, disorient and confuse" the enemy and that they had done so with pinpoint accuracy. But some Air Force pilots consider the plane so unstable in flight that they call it the Wobbly Goblin. A congressional defense expert dismissed the public exposure of the F-117A as "pure pap -- a gimmick." This mission, he scoffed, "could have been flown with an Aero Commander, or let Mathias Rust ((the West German teenager who landed his Cessna in Red Square...