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...when a covey of U.S.A.F. pilots converged in Washington last week for an Air Force Association symposium, shop talk indicated that the Stealth has a nickname. Pilots who fly the plane out of the Tonopah, Nev., Air Force base find it so tricky they call it the "Wobbly Goblin." Onboard computers are supposed to control the Stealth's performance, even at the highest speeds, but experts say the plane sometimes "gets away" from the pilot, who then has to take over manually -- and earn his wings all over again...
...doctor, but he refuses to see anything wrong: "He made the usual tests, and said, 'It's large for five months, but not abnormally so.' " After long agony, the child is born. Seeing him for the first time, the mother says, "He's like a troll, or a goblin or something." Harriet names him Ben and brings him home to his father and siblings, who learn to shun and fear him. The infant is physically precocious and incredibly strong, and he betrays no trace of human sympathy or fellowship. A dog and a cat about the premises die mysteriously, apparently...
...manner of speaking, he is. The versatile rocker has just finished shooting Labyrinth, a $25 million gothic fantasy directed by Muppets Creator Jim Henson and overseen by Star Wars Mastermind George Lucas. Bowie, who wrote and sings a batch of new songs for the movie, plays Jareth the Goblin King, a baddie who lives at the center of a maze and turns human babies into goblins. Most of the other characters are part of a new Hensonagerie that includes Ludos, Wild Things and a wise man with a bird growing out of his head. All delightfully different. "Henson's understanding...
...random. Chance meetings of images, the weird threat an unfocused eye hooks from the normal texture of life: these have fueled the reverie and invention of innumerable artists. From De Chirico's piazzas to Steven Spielberg's suburbs, our culture is intermittently fascinated by the noonday goblin-the sense that something is askew within the well lit, the ordinary, and that the closer you peer the odder it gets. Jennifer Bartlett, whose recent paintings are currently on view at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark...
...many criticize him for playing variations of himself, Nicholson has made such a tactic practicable by proving his self to be supercool with a tinge of vulnerability, bitterly, defiant of--but emotionally affected by--a world without any apparent reason or overseeing deity. His surface steely-eyed, fierce-grinning goblin envelops a much more luminous, purposeful character in whom we see our hopes, anxieties, lusts, and humanity, and with whom we attempt to carve a moral niche in the rotting bark of 20th-century civilization. Nicholson's important films involve religion of the self; he acts as he sees...