Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happily celebrating that morning's observance of See You at the Pole, an annual national event in which Christian teens gather around their school flagpoles before classes to pray. A band called Forty Days was playing a song titled Alle, alleluia, when Ashbrook was allegedly invited to accept the Lord. He moved to the back of the sanctuary, banged a door to get his audience's attention, and started firing again...
...aunt and uncle and their hateful son Dudley, in a faceless English suburb--specifically 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging--learns shortly after his 11th birthday that he is really a wizard. What's more, he is famous throughout the wizard world; although his parents were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort (so feared that he is referred to only as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"), the infant Harry survived the attack with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead...
...Chronicles of Narnia. Like them, Harry is young enough both to adapt to altered realities and to observe them with a minimum of preconceptions. Also, the sorcerer's stone in the first Harry Potter book bears an obvious kinship with the all-powerful ring pursued in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy...
This spring the rapper MA$E gave up singing about the glories of excess to devote himself to the glory of God. Now the 20-year-old has decided to add homework to the Lord's work and enrolled as a student at Clark Atlanta University. A protege of Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy), Ma$e sold 3 million copies of his 1997 album Harlem World and was one of the biggest stars in rap before retiring from the business. Now he's just an oddly named coed. A spokesperson for the university said Ma$e, born Mason Betha, "fits...
...Grimm-Golding mix, which zeroes in on the adolescent psyche's worst fears: fear of getting lost in the woods (a la Hansel and Gretel)--leaving home and being without guidance--and fear of the anarchy and tragedy that can ensue without adult supervision (a la Lord of the Flies). Coupled with the reality of the recent high school shootings, this is truly a "grimm" tale that hit gold. LAURA CAHNERS-FORD Charlotte...