Word: gargantuan
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After Brody whittled off 30 lbs. for his 2002 portrayal of a Holocaust victim, his Oscar-winning performance launched him on to gargantuan things, like a role in next year's King Kong...
More specifically, a gigantic, enormous, gargantuan crossword. Tiao is the proud owner of one “World’s Largest Crossword,” a massive tapestry of downs and acrosses with over 28,000 clues. The seven-by-seven foot puzzle, which hangs on a wall in Tiao’s room in Weld Hall, was a high school graduation gift. As Tiao explains, “My friend was flying home from MIT’s freshman weekend and saw this puzzle in the Skymall catalog.” (In other news, Tiao?...
...HYDROPOWER: Current percentage: 7.7% Percentage in 2010: 24-29% MAJOR PROJECTS: The controversially gargantuan Three Gorges Dam will be the biggest power plant in the world when it is completed in 2009. China is also building another major hydroelectric project, the Longtan hydropower station on the Pearl River, which is slated for 2009 completion...
Although OCS is making a gargantuan effort to cater to these undecideds, many students—intimidated by the perception that everyone around them is on a vector to success—often dismiss the office as being solely for the hardcore recruiting set. Tuesday night’s meeting had a vaguely Alcoholics Anonymous vibe to it—with students looking around nervously, as if to check who their companions were in Indecision Land. For OCS, urging those undecideds to take that first step is not going to be easy...
...exaggerated preservation of tradition and the promise of growth, the schizophrenia of globalization—are Egypt’s glaring contradictions and ironies. It is not uncommon to walk through bazaars and see women covered from head to toe in black, veiled except for their eyes, rifling through gargantuan vats of skimpy thong underwear. It is perfectly acceptable, even normal, for male soldiers to hold hands and kiss one another on the street, machine guns slung casually by their sides. At the same time, though, wives follow their husbands in the street and women are not supposed to make...