Word: brobdingnagian
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Bush, George W. •newfound awareness that "it turns out that there's a lot of interlinks throughout the financial system" is shared by •responsibility for yet another Brobdingnagian fiasco that befell the nation on his watch yet again not taken...
...Once they had produced 400 shows and run a zillion variations on Homer's Brobdingnagian stupidity, Marge's slow burn, Bart's overachieving impishness, Lisa's displaced intelligence and Maggie's muteness, The Simpsons' caretakers faced another challenge. How could they expand 22 min. of content into a coherent, cholerically funny, 87-min., worth-paying-for laff riot shown on a wall in a mall? And beyond how-why? Maybe because Parker and Stone had proved it could be done, splendidly, with their 1999 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Anyway, here's The Simpsons Movie. It was worth waiting...
...Obviously, that's bad news if you happen to be in the business of selling, say, iron to China. But a slowdown would be welcome in many quarters. China's appetite for raw materials has been Brobdingnagian. The country consumed 40% of the world's cement, 31% of the world's coal and 27% of its steel last year, helping drive up prices for many commodities, such as metals, by 50%. But prices have been falling for several weeks, to the delight of many. Jeffrey Sheu, spokesman for Taiwan-based bicycle maker Giant Manufacturing, applauds China's efforts to rein...
...history of movies in the '90s--or in any room--Weinstein looms large. Biskind portrays Miramax's Brobdingnagian bully as a movie-loving maniac prone to physical violence, verbal attacks and financial shenanigans. Those sins are usually forgiven because his little studio in Manhattan's Tribeca has backed many of the best, most original flicks in recent memory, including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Chicago, and he ponied up big time when MGM got cold feet about co-funding Cold Mountain...
...more money in a day than I make in a year. Are the professors not up to the task of investment management? Harvard’s philosophy of hiring faculty suggests that these faculty should be replaced by those money managers whose value is so clearly indicated by their Brobdingnagian, social-equilibrium-shattering pay packages...