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...totally unreal by the jerky animation. His Black Riders with their red eyes and shuffling walks suggest the Jawas from Star Wars, not the nightmare spirits who scared me so badly on my first encounter with them at 10 that I put down the book for two years and hid under the covers for weeks afterwards. His Gandalf is a finger-wagging bore, his battle scenes endless parades of ill-defined masses moving back and forth across a painted landscape. His Orcs prompted one lady to say, "That one looks like Nixon...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Ripping-Off the Ring | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

...rain, to wait till the next day when, perhaps, it would be beautiful again. It was easy to acquiesce. After 210 miles I wanted to climb to the top of the highest peak in the U.S. and take in the view, a pointless effort in the rain which hid the mountain from the view and the view from the mountain...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Hell and High Water | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...miles) northwest of Stuttgart, began plowing up curious stones that had clearly been assembled at the site in ancient times, archaeologists quickly converged on the scene. What they uncovered was the collapsed remnant of a burial mound 60 meters (197 ft.) wide, protected by massive bulwarks that hid the ornately appointed and undisturbed tomb of a Celtic chieftain who died around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Discovering a Celtic Tut | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...never complained, never raised his voice, kept to his room and his studies, said hello pleasantly, and fairly radiated that he wanted no trouble. If the rest of us got drunk and let the cows into the Master's garden, to eat his roses and tramp his poppies, Krueger hid for a week in the library. He was one of the few Texans I've ever known who looked as if he wished you wouldn't say it so loud that that was where he was from...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Pissants and Pablum | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

...enjoying herself after the boredom of being blue all day." Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the images in Haye's mind shift from sight to sound: "Voices had become his great interest, voices that surrounded him, that came and went, that slipped from tone to tone, that hid to give away in hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Accident | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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