Word: goblins
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...remain a Red Sox fan during the winter months, the Hot Stove League season that is the purists' lifeblood. By day, the Sox are an enthralling, interesting club, with a capacity few other teams possess to come from behind with a dramatic rally. But by night they are a goblin, tormenting the soul of the fanatic who can only relive last year in sorrow for what has been lost...
...DOOM GLOOM GOBLIN? demanded the posters of the right-wing Rhodesian Action Party. Among the diehard Afrikaner ranchers of Nuanetsi, near Belingwe, the gloom is virtually impenetrable. Last week most farmers there cast their ballots by mail; nowadays they rarely venture far from their fortified homes. Reason: during one terrifying two-week period in July, a different homestead was attacked every day. The Belingwe Tribal Trust Land has become what one Swiss missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however...
That hobnailed goblin, the bob-tailed...
...produce one of the great sexual images of the 18th century with The Night mare (1781). The painting ought not to work. It is too literal, too obvious. Its spectral horse with Ping Pong ball eyes puffs and blows through a fold in the cur tain, and the goblin looks like an irri table Irish dwarf. It is, in fact, the kind of painting that seems merely an aggressive pantomime in a post-psychological culture like ours. Yet nearly 200 years after it was painted, one cannot help ad miring the symbolizing effort that went into it: no other painting...
...tells of two sisters who are tempted with forbidden fruit by a troupe of goblin brothers. A single taste of their juices leads to a lingering death. One of the sisters succumbs to the goblins' solicitation, and Rossetti writes that...