Word: gargantuanism
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GWAR sounded liked the perfect answer. Their promotional literature touted them as a group of art students from Virginia Commonwealth University who perform outrageously raunchy heavy-metal music while dressed in gargantuan papier-mache costumes that make them resemble dinosaurs from outer space. They sport Iudicrously enlarged phalluses as well as leather, spikes, whips and chains. The band puts on an elaborate stage show, complete with ritual tortures, eviscerations and decaptitations, and squirts gallons of phony blood and semen into the audience. Responding to charges that they are sexist they retorted, "We're also racist...
Tower (95 Mt. Auburn) and HMV (in Brattle Square) are predictably huge, sleek and impersonal. Each offers a gargantuan selection of rock, classical, jazz and international music at decent prices, with popular albums regularly priced...
THEY WERE, BY FAR, THE LARGEST and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a swath of gargantuan cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth. But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had ever been able to peer into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment -- or more precisely, an infinitesimal 300,000 years after the moment -- that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: NASA'S Cosmic Background...
...contrary, Cestello had addressed a topic that is no laughing matter these days. Like the managers of Equimark, a growing number of chief executives this spring are feeling compelled to defend their gargantuan paychecks. After a decade of unchecked growth -- during which CEO pay grew four times as fast as the income of the average worker and three times the rate of corporate profits -- executive compensation has become a hot-button issue. From investors, big and small, to public officials at every level, ceos are catching flak as never before...
Each time Harvard made even the slightest defensive error in the fourth frame, the Tigers capitalized. Behind sophomore sensation Kevin Lowe (I goal, 4 assists), gargantuan senior Justin Tortolani (3 goals) and surprise star junior John Burstein (3 goals), Princeton rattled off goal after goal...