Word: munchkin
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...wasn't that Hart agonized over the lyrics (as Hammerstein did); Larry could be lightning-quick when he got down to work. It was that he agonized over life. His felt a misplaced person, a Martian or Munchkin whose job was to observe the beautiful people, then put equally ravishing words in their bowed mouths - to make them sound and feel as smart as they looked...
...hits compilation of the book itself, from the snake that winks at Harry in the zoo to the owls that swoop through his school, Hogwarts, dropping mail on the magically gifted boys and girls; from Hogwarts' Great Hall with its soaring night-sky ceiling to the cavernous vaults and Munchkin-size goblins working in Gringotts bank (keep an eye out for Verne Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the 1999 Austin Powers sequel); from the wizard's version of chess, in which queens and knights come alive and beat each other senseless, to the Quidditch field, where young witches...
...roommate's uncle who lives nearby. Having been thoroughly removed from the world of crayons and My Little Pony (this reference itself probably dates me), I was fascinated by everything about this magical time, especially the incredible capacities of those living in it. At four years old, a lisping munchkin with deep-blue saucer-eyes had almost fully intuited the myriad arcane, inexplicable rules of English grammar, and was constructing extensive stream-of-consciousness narratives on a wide range of topics from proper dining etiquette for tropical fish to the telos of motherhood. Her speech was even peppered with endearing...
...least four generations are represented (along with voices from much further in the past): bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley, veterans such as Norman Blake and John Hartford, neo-trad practitioners like Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, and the Munchkin-voiced Peasall Sisters (average age eight and a half). But the years fade away as the artists converge on an old-timey repertoire of sparsely arranged, vocally oriented songs that hark back to a pre-commercial time when singing was as integral an element of people's lives as work, love and religion, all of which it encompassed. This isn't folk...
...Cattrell plays Samantha Jones, a sexy PR executive who loves to live the high life as much as President Clinton enjoys his cigars. She unabashedly lusts for one-night stands, and, in recent memory, has slept with a munchkin, a guy who pops Viagra for the extra thrust, and a man so large even Samantha feared she would get lockjaw. She cut off her romance with L.A.'s Dildo King--despite his phenomenal size and stamina--because he wanted more than just the sex. It would be safe to call Samantha a slut. On the other hand, she never hesitates...