Word: behemothly
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Whipped into a near frenzy at a giant pre-game pep rally, the Notre Dame fans were crying for blood. Instead, the Bruins, nicknamed the "Slaughterhouse Five," cleanly and expertly dissected the unranked Fighting Irish. Led by Center Bill Walton, a 6-ft. 11-in. behemoth under the boards, U.C.L.A. shook off an early case of the jitters and coasted to an 82-63 victory. Afterward, the game ball was carried off for enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The pressure off, Wooden and his charges returned to their quest for an even more remarkable record...
...distilling whisky and raising cattle. In 1956 he retired to California but got restless; the next year he bought control of Occidental, then a company with sales of only $274,000. Through a combination of luck, brass and shrewd management, he had built the company by 1970 into a behemoth earning $175 million on sales of more than $2 billion. Major factors in the rise: oil strikes in California and above all in Libya (one on land that Mobil Oil had abandoned because it produced nothing but dry holes) along with diversification by acquisitions into fertilizers, coal and chemicals...
...while these characterizations swerve close to caricature, like the movie itself. But Hickey and Boggs is one of those weird, not wholly successful genre films that, for their general vigor and many individual virtues, end up being a great deal more engaging than the typical big-budget Hollywood behemoth...
...appearance of Brooks, who stroked the lightweight varsity to its fifth consecutive undefeated season last spring, is a bit of a surprise. At 170 pounds he gives away size to everyone, and in the behemoth world of international rowing, that leaves him at a distinct disadvantage...
...peer at the players everywhere but in the shower rooms. Hoisted on cranes, mounted on helicopters and shuttled along the sidelines, they can in effect keep the viewer everywhere at once. Using zoom lenses to peek into the huddle, or directional microphones to pick up the violent crunch of behemoth meeting behemoth, modern TV crews make the action so real that bulldozing backs sometimes seem to plunge over the goal line onto the living-room...