Word: gargantuan
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...Patrick Lynn, a segment producer for American Idol. The rented eight-bedroom manse that houses Idol's finalists, in the mountains above Los Angeles, is like the show itself: big, showy and just tacky enough to be amusing. There are faux-castle turrets, an Egyptian-style horse statue, a gargantuan wooden wagon, a mammoth futuristic fake-suede couch--and three very ordinary teenage women battling America's largest case of butterflies. A few weeks ago, over a catered dinner of poached salmon and Chinese chicken salad, the contestants chatted with TIME about taking the judges' critiques of their singing, especially...
...crass as it is to remind the administration that Harvard has an endowment of $19.5 billion, it does. I understand, of course, that Harvard’s operating budget is gargantuan and that despite the commensurate endowment, the University isn’t dripping with excess cash. Nevertheless, the pitifully short library hours need not remain an immutable fact of life...
...This gargantuan show at Vegas? Caesars Palace is a controversial subject chez Corliss. Husband was enthralled, wife repelled. But I?m writing the column, so here goes. With gigantic colonnades at the beginning and shooting stars and meteor showers at the climax, director Franco Dragone encases his stars, nearly smothers her (and that?s all right with me) in production values. You?ll never see anything so stupendous. Or stupefying. (Mary just called in: ?Or stupid...
...levitated monorail. As chair, Amorello took over the Big Dig in February 2002, and for nearly two years the rest of the transportation world have looked on with a combination of envy and schadenfreude. But a man of Amorello’s imagination is no more satisfied with that gargantuan project than Caesar was with two-thirds of Gaul. And so he has commissioned an study—the first stop on the long ride to monorail creation...
...true Southern fashion, the bar is half the fun. Adventurous patrons can enjoy concoctions such as the gargantuan “Trash Can Punch.” For $65, Brother Jimmy’s mixes two-and-a-half gallons of liquor, juice and ice, and serves in a giant glass container with about a million huge colored straws. Think Scorpion Bowl on steroids. “Minimum of 8 people required!” the menu warns. If you have a smaller group, try the “Swamp Water” ($16). Described...