Word: jockeys
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...hobbits--leprechaunish, with round bellies and bottoms, like the Munchkins in MGM's Oz--are persuasively played by jockey-size actors. The Shire and its environs are suggested less by sets than by delicately sylvan projections. Rivendell's High Elves are just that: they rise and float serenely (on wires) above the hobbits. The Winnebago-size Shelob tries to wrap her spidery tentacles around a struggling Frodo with the help of six black-clad puppeteers...
...Angeles Times yanked a 1972 Trudeau strip about a diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: [the poor Los Angeles neighborhood of] Watts ... Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That's guilty, guilty, guilty!" Trudeau later explained that he was only trying to parody the hysteria of Nixon foes, but dozens of papers excised the panels...
...performers along the Hong Kong waterfront. Don't miss it, or the stunning fireworks display scheduled for Jan. 30 at Victoria Harbour?the pyrotechnics draw an audience of half a million to the city's shoreline. Less chaotic are the Chinese New Year Races, held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Sha Tin track on Jan. 31. Local punters say that a win on this day will bring betting luck all year round. But even if your horse doesn't come in, the trackside buzz and the roar of the crowd will be enough to get tails wagging...
...performers along the Hong Kong waterfront. Don't miss it, or the stunning fireworks display scheduled for Jan. 30 at Victoria Harbour - the pyrotechnics draw an audience of half a million to the city's shoreline. Less chaotic are the Chinese New Year Races, held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Sha Tin track on Jan. 31. Local punters say that a win on this day will bring betting luck all year round. But even if your horse doesn't come in, the trackside buzz and the roar of the crowd will be enough to get tails wagging...
...President's p.r. push on job numbers may test the modern adage "It's the economy, stupid." This week, it just may not be. The death toll in Iraq climbs daily. Corruption investigations are metastasizing on the Hill. Politicians aspiring to higher office jockey more aggressively for broader support. And, as outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admonished his final G-7 conference in London Friday, increasing budget deficits and unsteady trade imbalances, unchecked, may threaten the global economic livelihood in the long...