Word: trolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mountain, called the Troll Castle, is an unearthly fin of weathered granite that pokes a vertical mile from its icebound surroundings. Only a handful of people knew, or cared, that it existed; fewer still had actually laid eyes on the peak. Alex, Conrad and I were the first who had gone to the trouble to climb it, and the view from the top was ample reward. Countless other rock towers, equally strange and beautiful, rise from the ice in all directions, resembling gargantuan sailboats plying a chalk-white...
...Marie finally finds her savior in Robert (Francois Berleand), the school principal at the elementary school where she teaches eager, innocent children the mornings after her nights of depravity. Although he's a troll compared to Paul and Paolo, Robert has more thoughtful things to say, takes Marie to romantic dinners--and introduces her to S&M. "Shall I dominate you?" he croons considerately before he ties her up at an excruciatingly slow pace...
...arrest was a major embarrassment to Disney and a shock to the Internet world. It also demonstrated the increasing efforts by the FBI to hunt down what the agency terms travelers, people who troll the Internet for impressionable children, trying to persuade them to meet for sex in the real world. "We've encountered a brand new kind of offender," says Randy Aden, supervisor of Southern California's safe squad. "You don't get the stereotypical bogeyman. You get doctors, lawyers, policemen, firemen--the guy next door." Aided by an infusion of $20 million from Congress in the past...
Polke depends not just heavily but entirely on the "appropriation" of visuals from all manner of sources, from comic books to ads, from news photos to William Blake. He skips and flitters like a frenetic troll through this forest of images without feeling the least impulse to make narrative sense. His work has the rambling, no-rules character of a dopehead's monologue. Indeed, just as Filippo Marinetti, leader of the Italian Futurists 90 years ago, called himself "the caffeine of Europe," so one of Polke's doodles, of a glass tube with powder spilling from it, is titled Polke...
DIED. BOB TROW, 72, Pittsburgh radio funnyman who went on to people Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for three decades as Robert Troll, Bob Dog and himself; of a heart attack; in New Alexandria...