Word: trolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down my egg spoon, 'why in the world should I do anything?'" Soon Hills began disintegrating. His Rust Hills personality split into three parts-the Fussy Man who made lists, an amiable boob named Larry Placebound, who charged about the country doing marginal journalistic assignments, and a troll called LOMLIC, which stands for Lonely Old Man Lives in Country. Not surprisingly, Hills' wife, stepchildren and dog appear to have left him during this period...
Even his much-publicized arrogance had its engaging aspect. He dropped names so often that floors threatened to collapse under their collective weight, but always with a troll-like wink that undermined the gravity of his statements and reduced them almost to an acknowledged self-parody. He bandied about words like power, influence, hiring and firing, always with himself on the business end of the proposittion, yet his flamboyant style seemed to belie the cold calculation of his rhetoric...
...image is much larger, such a misconceived technique makes the actors look as if they were being paraded through a police lineup. Scenarist Don Carpenter has provided some pretty good redneck dialogue, and there is a well-observed performance by Michael C. Gwynne as Maury's tense, troll-like manager, who looks as if he regarded the daylight hours as a direct threat to his health...