Word: magical
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...fantasy is simple, black-and-white and unrealistic. The deeper meaning of The Lord of the Rings trilogy is that there is potential for evil in us all and there is also potential for good. Although the hobbit hero Frodo may have failed to resist the temptation of the magic Ring, it is the slithery Gollum--thought to be nothing more than a nuisance--who ultimately destroys the Ring. Tolkien presents these profound ideas in the guise of an old-fashioned sword-and-sorcery epic. But the characters are as real and human as we are. BLAIR HURLEY Newton, Mass...
...Houston Astros at my 21st birthday party, with Brad Ausmus jumping out of the cake. And while we’re on the subject, why not let Brad work his catching magic with some quality pitching besides Wade Miller and future Cy Young winner Roy Oswalt? Though he just resigned for another year, the Shaner’s back is iffy, so it can’t hurt to pick up another veteran...
...golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, then use them to solve white folks' mundane problems instead of helping black folks by, say, routing the Ku Klux Klan...
...Woods not because he is partly black but because he is the game's No. 1 player, and the second editorial did call upon Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to protest as well. But asking Woods to lead the charge still struck me as implying that only a Magic Negro could be expected to wave his putter like a magic wand and singlehandedly settle the bitter quarrel between two entrenched camps. The people drafting Woods seem to feel that he has a special obligation to spearhead the assault on discrimination at Augusta simply because his multiracial background supposedly makes...
...told TIME? Where's the heat on such topflight pros as Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, David Duval? None of them individually have the clout of Woods, but a protest by all of them would bring Augusta to its knees--and would let Tiger stop trying to be the Magic Negro and go back to playing golf...