Word: brobdingnag
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...team of 25 animators toiled to achieve two or three seconds of footage a day, as Lord and Park patrolled the tiny sets like the barons of Brobdingnag. The Aardman shop buzzed with the work of painters, press molders and a gent known as the mouth-and-beak-replacement coordinator...
...City subway train. Tori Spelling, in the CBS movie Co-Ed Call Girl, grabbed a gun and shot a sleazy pimp. Batman (the cartoon character) was almost thrown into a vat of flames by the Penguin. Lemuel Gulliver (the Ted Danson character) battled gigantic bees in the land of Brobdingnag. And Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy slapped around bad guys in the umpteenth cable showing...
...work of Takefumi Aida, 50, is reminiscent of a particular kind of American postmodernism: the playful houses of California's Charles Moore, architecture as fun. Each of Aida's houses appears to be a sprawling stack of a child's multicolored building blocks in Brobdingnag -- simple rectangles, cylinders, triangles and crescents...
...mistaking them. Some look like a cake mold capable of turning out angel food for 2,500. Others look like a louvered back door from a tract house in Brobdingnag, or a creature from a 1950s horror movie-the wretched spawn of reckless radioactive experimentation, the amazing colossal sand dollar...
...their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes his ironic allegory of Lilliput and Brobdingnag into a monster movie freckled with psychiatric footnotes. But the dean is dead, and the little Yahoos will love...