Word: brobdingnagianized
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Fortnight ago he was in Gibraltar watching the plebiscite on whether ownership of the Rock should revert to Spain. Last week Brobdingnagian (6 ft. 5 in., 280 lbs.), peripatetic Richard M. Scammon was back in his office in Washington, busily psephologizing as one of the capital's most sought-after ad viserson political trends...
Accustomed to performing on a stage of brobdingnagian proportions (70 ft. wide by 78 ft. deep), the company practically had to be shoehorned into the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the Place des Arts, whose stage is about one-half as roomy. While seven translators repeated orders in Russian, English and French, workmen scurried about rolling up the backdrops to fit and putting up a tent to hold the overflow of the troupe's 3,000 costumes. Nonetheless, assured Chief Designer Vadim Rin-din, "the spectacle that will be seen here will be in no way inferior to that seen...
...real marzipan molds of the artist's face, cast thrice weekly by Manhattan's Tower Suite restaurant; 4) a collage made out of old cigarette butts; 5) sketches and models for "proposed colossal monuments," including a 75-ft.-high wing nut for engineering-happy Stockholm, and a brobdingnagian girl's thigh for hem-hoisting London...
...Brobdingnagian sandpaper...
...craggy features of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt blasted out of the face of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore are world renowned. Less known is a rival of brobdingnagian proportions looming into sight on Stone Mountain, a freak outcropping of granite that juts 700 feet above the plains of Georgia, 16 miles from Atlanta. Subject of the Stone Mountain Memorial: the heroes and leaders of the Confederacy-Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson...