Word: brobdingnagians
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...days in advance, workers were painting Havana's threadbare buildings, draping banners, and hanging enormous murals depicting Brobdingnagian revolutionaries. The festivities began with a New Year's blast in the Plaza de la Revolución, where 50,000 Cubans and guests paid $3 a head for a spread of roast pig and chicken, and toasted the year with hundreds of gallons of Spanish wine...
Word came that Brobdingnagian Boozer Jackie Gleason, 49, would be dropping by to help open the Lutheran Church's Youth Conference in Miami Beach. Suddenly there were righteous snorts all over Convention Hall. "He is not the kind of person," harrumphed one delegate, to be associated with 8,000 impressionable young Lutherans. Nonsense, replied Theologian J. Benjamin Bedenbaugh: "Why, Jesus spent more time with the Jackie Gleasons of his day than with the professors of theological seminaries." About 300 delegates canceled out, but when the bibulous Great One finally appeared, the others gave him a standing ovation...
...Rosenquist, 31, who started out as a billboard painter and feels that his early years gave him a unique outlook. He once did a 58-ft. by 20-ft. portrait of Actress Joanne Woodward for a Broadway signboard, and his view of women and the world has been Brobdingnagian ever since. Says Rosenquist of his work: "I'm interested in contemporary vision-the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing-bang! Bing-bang! I don't do anecdotes; I accumulate experiences." F-111 is thus his own superbillboard illustration of modern industrial culture...
...Scully who did most of the damage. He had 15 points during the last nine minutes of play, and 24 for the game. When Scully tries his twisting, underhanded lay-up against experienced big men, he frequently winds up picking leather from between his teeth. But the Brobdingnagian Indian sophomores were baffled by his tactics...
...ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer can use a device...