Word: strobing
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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...
Major changes in Clinton's foreign policy team are imminent. Strobe Talbott, the State Department's Ambassador at Large to Russia and the former Soviet republics, will soon become Secretary of State Warren Christopher's No. 2 man. The Administration is concerned that its European policy is unfocused; Talbott (a former Time columnist) is being brought in to address this problem. He is said to be already interviewing candidates for top State and National Security Council posts; some high-level bureaucrats are sure to be ousted...
...Soviet military might at a level where the U.S.S.R. feels secure, and therefore where much of the rest of the world feels insecure. As the most powerful newcomer to the world stage, Gorbachev had numerous occasions to flash his nice smile, but those iron teeth were always showing. --By Strobe Talbott...
...jockey's booth and man-made waterfall. Another video chronicles an abandoned bacchanal aboard the presidential yacht, celebrating the birthday of the youngest of the three Marcos offspring, Irene Araneta, last year. A man in a baby bonnet bursts out of a cake. The First Lady jives under flashing strobe lights with an American consular official dressed in Bermuda shorts. Then Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a former provincial governor known to family and friends as Bong-bong, steps up to a mike, sporting makeup and a flashing electronic bow tie, and joins in on a raucous rendition...
...there they were again, Reagan and Gorbachev, engaged in just that cooperative effort to enforce the military peace while simultaneously pursuing the political competition. --By Strobe Talbott...