Word: steedly
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...eerie strobe light, a black rider rears its steed (a man and puppet on stilts), sending fearful hobbits scurrying. Dead men rise from the Marshes (a roiling silver sheet) to make war against Sauron's legions. In the Mountains of Moria, Gandalf battles the enormous Balrog (an Erector-set confection with steaming orange eyes) as the sound effects roar and a strong wind gusts from the stage, spraying the audience with a blizzard of black confetti. As for Frodo, he not only lives, he also sings in the new version of The Lord of the Rings, opening this week...
...with brief bits of personal anecdote. The poignant story he told prefacing “The Young Thousands” was about the little racehorse his mother bet on against better judgment who went on to win the race. But before he got caught up in sentiment for the steed, Darnielle gleefully interjected that even his victories were not enough to keep the horse from being sent out to pasture. Beyond simply entertaining, the tale clarified the song’s somewhat abstract lyrics. At times like this, the lyricist’s full gift for Homeristic story-telling became...
...patches of exhaust-wilted grass, but by a sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie that is the Pike...
There's no question that the equipment has improved. Rent a cross-country bike these days, and you're likely to get a sturdy steed with hydraulic or mechanical disk brakes, which will help prevent you from skidding out of control when descending a steep incline. A few years ago, the technology appealed mainly to downhill racers, but it has since become widespread. New rear suspensions allow bikers to alter their mount's shock-absorbing capacity to accommodate the terrain. This year Specialized launched a line of bikes, Epic ($1,900+), whose suspension system, called "the Brain," automatically adjusts...
Howard recognizes Pollard as a kindred spirit for his stubborn steed and takes him in, becoming a kind of surrogate father to the angry, abandoned Red. "You kind of see his safe, secure, loving world get crushed, and you see his boyishness just drain out of him," Maguire explains. "He toughens up and withdraws and keeps himself guarded. And then you see that melt away again as he becomes part of this family." Watching Red slowly learn to trust those around him, you realize that Maguire has taken his standard boy-becomes-man routine and subverted it. He plays...