Word: gargantuanism
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...Rydingsvard spoke of her progression from her simple, nature-based period in the 1970s to her current work with gargantuan pieces. During her earlier period, she planted installations in various locales including Battery Park City in Manhattan and the country near Niagara Falls in upstate New York. With her maturation in the medium, however, she created increasingly larger structures, pieces that now no longer fit in her studio. The artist easily recalled the exact measurements of nearly every piece shown, revealing her close connection with the process of creating the works...
...side of Route 2, an elevated metallic strip of state highway that allows the ignorant traveler to bypass the architectural delights of the Alewife T Station, a building designed with such warmth and tenderness that it would have felt happily at home in Stalin’s USSR. A gargantuan neon sign welcomes visitors to the bowlers’ paradise where for $7 one can bowl two games in a pair of rented shoes that would make the girls from “Sex in the City” green with envy...
...Russia currently have about 6,000 long-range ballistic missiles fitted with nuclear warheads - and the Russian stockpile would be virtually meaningless once a shield was in place. This is assuming the shield works, of course, and that?s far from a foregone conclusion; the project is gargantuan, and hinges on technology that remains largely untested and unproved...
Ciccone’s story reflects some of the prevalent complaints about the Harvard advising system. Admittedly, watching over 6,400 undergraduates is a gargantuan task. But in light of Harvard’s financial and intellectual resources, the existence of what many consider a mediocre advising system remains a wonder...
Something as small as a box cutter tore the World Trade Center from our skyline, yet the terrorist threats will only get smaller still--germs, molecules, split atoms--and become the more menacing for it. Americans' greatest undoing, however, will be the gargantuan steps taken by our government to fight these almost imperceptible dangers. In the name of protecting freedom, we'll watch our civil liberties diminish to near nothing. And what good is fighting for freedom if the freedom's gone? MICHAEL J.E. HANSON Sioux Falls...