Word: trolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creatures are so amiable. Goblins, those foot-high fiends of the forest, and house ghosts are obnoxious and troublesome. But the real threat to gnomes comes from the troll--a disgusting, hairy and unkempt Northern European dolt who gets his jollies by keeping his gnomes to the grindstones and by lighting a gnome on fire and then playing hot potato with him. Gnomes are for whom the troll yells, so to speak...
Another familiar face is that of Jeffrey Wayne Davies, who turns in a predictably excellent performances as King Gama, Ida's father. Gama is a grouchy, twisted troll of a man, constantly pointing out everyone's faults. "Everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man/And I can't think why!" he complains in a solo that Gilbert wrote as a jocular self-description. (Gilbert positively reveled in his reputation as an ogre. Around a scowling self-portrait, he once wrote. "I loathe everybody--I love to bully--Everybody is an Ass--I am an overbearing beast--I hate my fellow...
...Quincy House Film Society showing of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is halted by angry members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Troll Association. Chanting "Walt Disney, stop your lies: we're gonna cut you down to size," the protesters topple the projector. In an open letter to the Harvard community, six Nieman fellows denounce the trolls for "seriously undermining the liberties we all hold dear." "This is how things started in Germany," the letter concludes...
...small (5 ft. 4 in.), balding troll of a man with a porcupine persona, Jenkins, 42, dominates a sport usually associated with big bruisers in black leather. Last year he won ten of the eleven major national drag races in the pro-stock class. At the American Hot Rod Association meet in St. Louis two months ago, he thundered down the quarter-mile strip in 8.97 sec., an all-time record. Ten days later in Epping, N.H., he clocked 8.93 sec. He only placed second last week at the N.H.R.A. world-championship meet in Amarillo, Texas, but Jenkins is still...
...Edwardsville, the orange-frizzed, troll-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) Midler hit the stage like a cartoon of a cyclone. "She's here," she assured her audience. "The divine Miss M is here." Actually, she was here, there and all over the stage at once - leaping, squatting, strutting, eyes popping, cakewalking at treble speed, as if she were strobe-lit from the inside. Midler has, as the French say, a world on her balcony, and it threatened to topple right out of her purple satin slip as she flounced across the stage to snipe...