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...film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, now re-made for HBO (Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST), Nancy is trapped by a philandering husband and a cruel, cruel fate. Afflicted with ray burns suffered when she is seized by a huge space monster, Nancy is transmogrified into a murdering colossus and ultimately killed by a sheriff wielding a riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty-Foot Feminist | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...memories, let's recall that the whole RJR fiasco got started when a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foul-mouthed Canadian expatriate named F. Ross Johnson, who for some inexplicable reason found himself running the 19th largest industrial company in the U.S., decided to take the food and tobacco colossus private in a leveraged buyout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbarians on The Screen | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...Colossus of Cinder Block...

Author: By Julie-ann R. Francis, | Title: Currier Is Ugly, Yet Friendly | 3/2/1993 | See Source »

Unlike the ivy-covered colonial buildings that most of the undergraduates at Harvard enjoy, Currier is a colossus of cinder block...

Author: By Julie-ann R. Francis, | Title: Currier Is Ugly, Yet Friendly | 3/2/1993 | See Source »

...loser of all is perhaps the weak brother who is made even weaker by his brother's success. At the same time, Americans want their leaders to be godlike but still connected to the soil from which they sprang; so it is psychologically useful if the President is a colossus but his brother has feet of clay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden Of Being Bill's Brother: ROGER CLINTON | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

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