Word: behemoths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aimesworth vs. the Dark Elves in six sprightly windows (with narration by Cindy Crawford, Peter Duchin, Brooke Shields, Dominick Dunne, Martha Stewart and seven others). At Fendi the Christmas trees are as svelte and haughty as the Euro-mannequins. From the windows of the Warner Bros. Studio Store, a behemoth Bugs and three of his Looney Tunes pals gaze fretfully across 57th Street at the Tiffany's display -- cuddly bears in tuxedos, snow gear and seraphim wings...
...Because that rule expires in January, the next Congress, under G.O.P. control, would be free to decorate GATT with subclauses sure to kill it because each one would have to be renegotiated with all 123 signatory nations. With its 26,000 pages of agreements and rules, GATT is a behemoth that just a few additions could tip over...
...Jurassic Park a home-video behemoth...
...this backstage story there are no villains, unless it is the lumbering behemoth that Hollywood filmmaking has become. In the '30s a director like Michael Curtiz made six or seven pictures a year. Even today, TV can crank out a news-based movie (on Tonya Harding or the Waco siege) within a couple of months of the event. But in theatrical features, where everyone is conscious of art, ego and the roll of megamillion-dollar dice, the average film takes a couple of years from first draft to opening...
Airlines have begun to cater specifically to the itinerant bargain hunters. Between October and March, Northwest Airlines offered a "Shop Till You Drop" tour that flew Britons and Japanese to the Mall of America in Bloomington, ) Minnesota, a 4.2 million-sq.-ft. behemoth with 420 stores. On the plan for the Britons, single-minded consumers boarded a plane in London late Friday afternoon, got to Minneapolis Saturday morning, shopped all day and arrived back in London early Sunday. "We compared a dozen items -- perfumes, blue jeans, fancy stationery items like Montblanc pens -- bought at the Mall of America to what...