Word: behemoths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tankers get bigger and bigger, the number of ports they can enter gets smaller and smaller. There are only about 20 commercial harbors in the world deep enough to serve the Nisseki Maru, a new Japanese behemoth that stretches 1,139 ft. long, carries almost 3,000,000 bbl. of crude oil and draws 89 ft. of water. Such monster tankers -each representing a potentially catastrophic oil spill-pump their cargoes into oil depots at the deep ports. Then smaller vessels take the oil to final destinations along the coast...
Basketball Behemoth Wilt Chamberlain stands 7 ft. 1 in. tall, weighs 275 Ibs. Even so, he complains, "I've had to adapt to normal sizes all my life." Not any more. To contain his outsize physique, Chamberlain is building a $1,000,000 house in the Hollywood hills. Soon he will be able to enter a 14-ft. doorway, toast in front of a 45-ft. fireplace, plunge into a 14-ft.-deep pool and loll on an 8-ft. by 9-ft. bed in a 1,000-sq.-ft. boudoir under a 14-ft. ceiling...
...revolutions of both Germany and Japan were challenging the established domain of the technologically advanced West. Although this section of his argument is too brief to stand as a convincing analysis, many of the questions Horowitz raises are dealt with more thoroughly in other works (of Frank Neumann's Behemoth which Horowitz often cites...
...from Peter Sellers in Strangelove, and played in Desire Under the Elms opposite his wife Colleen. They now had two sons, but as his talent matured, his personal life began to crack. Everything broke open in 1964, after Scott left for Rome to play Abraham in John Huston's behemoth film The Bible...
...band epitomizes today's vogue for the nostalgia trip. Jones and Lewis, in fact, met at a "battle" of the big bands-Count Basie v. Stan Kenton-in a Detroit hotel 15 years ago. Thad was a trumpeter with Basie, Mel the drummer behind Kenton's brassy behemoth. They both might be forgiven any nostalgia they cared to indulge in. Neither of them cares to. They would no more ape Woody Herman or Tommy Dorsey than sit behind monogrammed music stands. Besides, yesterday's big-band era was all about dancing. Today's audience does...