Word: maraudings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trust them. You don't want one for a pet. You don't want your daughter to marry one." And yet they are, undeniably, cute. Four of them stand outside a home wearing earmuffs and ski caps, caroling. Though their goals are to multiply and maraud, the gremlins are distracted by the slightest opportunity to forget it all and have fun, whether that means ransacking a department store or catching a midnight matinee of Snow White and singing "Heigh-ho" along with the Seven Dwarfs. "If they could speak English," notes Spielberg, "they'd probably...
...bizarre but vertiginous, a maelstrom around negation. Suppose, the novel demands, that one summer the elder Venturas decide to spend a day away from their estate at a picnic site that may or may not exist. They take all their servants and weapons with them (cannibals are said to maraud in the wilds, although no living family member can testify to having seen one), leaving their 33 pampered children alone and unprotected in the huge house...