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...such as the conclusion to a letter of January 25 in which the otherwise uninformative comment--"We would appreciate a response as soon as possible"--curves upward on the page in a rising sweep of alarm. A March 2 SDS contribution to this anthology was either typed on a Brobdingnagian typewriter or was blown up by the editors--a marvellous expression of their subconscious wish, though they themselves warn SDS in their introduction not "to advertise its wish as fact"--to approximately three times its normal size, perhaps in search of a visual equivalent to SDS's electromegaphonic mode...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Dear Archie/Dear Katherine | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

...follow the right-hand signal of Big Tex-a 52-ft.-high drugstore cowboy statue giving directions in a mechanical voice that sounds like a blend of Charlton Heston and Chill Wills. Then you come upon the preserve of the second Texas: the livestock exhibitions. In the Swine Building, Brobdingnagian hogs slumber peacefully in their stalls. Photographs of the various Quality Pork Champions are posted on a bulletin board in two neat rows, like so many Miss Rheingold winners on a barroom wall. The most frenetic activity takes place in the Livestock Pavilion, where coveralled owners lavish on their animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Fair: She Crawls on Her Belly Like a Reptile | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Married. Mama Cass Elliott, 27, brobdingnagian belter of pop-rock tunes; and Donald von Wiedenman, 27, writer-actor and heir to a Bavarian barony; she for the second time, he for the first; in West Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1971 | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

Though most furniture will be for normal-size people, one Brobdingnagian fireside chair will be reserved exclusively for the host. Explains Wilt: "I don't want some friend to come over, sit down in a chair and just disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 21, 1971 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

Political Alchemy. In 1968, then Harvard Professor Henry Kissinger wrote that the best the U.S. could expect after withdrawing its troops would be for Saigon to survive for "a decent interval"-two or three years. Since then, South Viet Nam's military machine has grown to brobdingnagian proportions. Saigon's air force should rank seventh in size in the world (50 squadrons, some 1,200 aircraft) when its Vietnamization is completed by 1974 or 1975. Its local and regular ground forces and navy, already 90% to 95% trained and equipped, will reach their full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: What It Means For Vietnamization | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

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