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...bonfire and hire more outside professionals to supervise and direct its construction. A 5-and-a-half-story bonfire is an excessive, unnecessary waste of time and natural resources. Furthermore, college students with no outside construction experience should not be entrusted with the execution of such a gargantuan building project...

Author: By Kristin E. Meyer, | Title: Bonfire Tradition Not Worth the Cost | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...still think of--despite a highly unpopular renaming a few years ago--as Brontosaurus. The University of Oklahoma paleontologists who found the new species have named it, aptly, Sauroposeidon, after the Greek sea god. Poseidon was also in charge of earthquakes, and it's clear that every step this gargantuan creature took must have been literally seismic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: A Dinosaur with Altitude | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, this is textbook Burton--shadowy visuals, injections of visceral comedy, relentless darkness and a Lisa Marie cameo (she swirls in the wind!). The bad news is that it isn't the Gothic masterpiece that we might have expected. But it'll still be a gargantuan hit. Look for our special Sleepy Hollow feature next week with in-depth coverage and an interview with one of the film's stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...still had actually laid eyes on the peak. Alex, Conrad and I were the first who had gone to the trouble to climb it, and the view from the top was ample reward. Countless other rock towers, equally strange and beautiful, rise from the ice in all directions, resembling gargantuan sailboats plying a chalk-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will There Be Any Wilderness Left? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Candidate statement: "I signed the Rent Stabilization Ballot Initiative question when not a single City Councillor would. I oppose gargantuan construction proposals and I would replace the current city manager. I have a willingness to get things done instead of being a 'showboat' all the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Candidates: Who They Are, Where They Stand | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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