Word: brobdingnagians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as the Empire State Building is tall, the ships in the new generation of supertankers are nothing if not impressive. But are they safe? Not according to Nöel Mostert, a South African-born journalist. In his 1974 best-seller Supership, Mostert warned that these brobdingnagian tankers were accidents looking for places where they could happen. Nothing since then has altered his gloomy prediction. At his new home in Tangier, Mostert told TIME last week...
...they caused, especially in the fussy business of seamlessly melding ape and human footage-essentially by employing sophisticated double-exposure techniques. This marrying of trick and conventional photography is still going on, but the available samples indicate that the illusions work-wondrous conjurer's tricks performed on a brobdingnagian scale...
...Good taste is available anywhere," says Manhattan Designer Barbara Marsten. "But you have to come to us for something garish." So one does, judging by the brobdingnagian baubles designed by Marsten's firm, appropriately named Caveat Emptor. The latest in nouveau gauche is a collection of oversized diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jumbo gems made of mug-proof cardboard. The paper jewels, actually collages made from color photographs of real gems, are meant to dangle from the neck on elasticized "platinum-colored" chains. On the back of each cutout is a wry put-on and putdown of the world...
...week to Ohio State Running Back Archie Griffin, a junior). Those who hunt pro talent for a living though, say that Randy White, a defensive end from Maryland, is likely to go first in the draft. In fact, according to TIME'S annual poll of pro scouts, several Brobdingnagian blockers and tacklers may well be picked ahead of Davis because this year's senior class is rich in linemen. If the scouts pooled their research, this is what their collective notebook would look like for an All-America team...
...about 170 million miles closer to the sun. Although the nucleus of a typical comet (which is thought to be composed of frozen water, methane and ammonia, as well as dust particles) is only about a mile in diameter, Kohoutek's comet seems to be a brobdingnagian 10 to 15 miles across. Moreover it will come to within 13 million miles of the sun. That relatively close flyby should produce a dazzling interaction between sun and comet...