Word: brobdingnagians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a storm of protest over the so-called zero-tolerance policy -- under which Brobdingnagian yachts were confiscated if lilliputian amounts of marijuana were discovered on board -- the Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs Service have decided that perhaps they can tolerate a trace or two of illicit drugs on the high seas after...
Which is not to say that Thiebaud, earlier in his career, did not seem to have his own brand of vulgarity. The time was distant--20 years ago, in fact --and the "vulgarity" had to do with food. Jasper Johns had his ale cans, Claes Oldenburg his Brobdingnagian hamburgers. Thiebaud in the mid-'60s was the laureate of pies: spongy peaks, white with coconut frosting and Reddi Wip, dark buttes sliced open to reveal caves of chocolate, pastry craters cupping their unruffled lakes of Key lime gelatin. Since mass food was one of the motifs of pop art, Thiebaud...
...also accommodated the wishes of the more radical students: instead of furniture, some of the lecture rooms will have bumps of various shapes on the floor. I, as professor, will sit on one of these bumps, and on and among the others, like Gulliver among the breasts of the Brobdingnagian women, will sit my students. It is supposed to help them relax. . . Not long ago Rocky McBeth made a final application to the dean to purchase some old Royal Canadian Air Force parachutes. He wanted to hang them from the classroom ceilings to cover the windows...
After Jan. 1, each of the eight brobdingnagian pieces of the old AT&T will sell conventional regulated telephone services but will also be free to venture into certain nonregulated communications fields. The parts...
...opening production had a Brobdingnagian minstrel show banked high on the mammoth stage, with scenery and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare, Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem...