Word: gargantuanism
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...solar research." The day after her arrival, Nash looked through a telescope "longer than a football field" to view the rising sun. She glimpsed a stunning, white-hot world swept by turbulence that made it look "grainy, as if sprinkled with sand." At the same time, she saw that "gargantuan sunspots had erupted like a rash" on either side of the solar equator...
Seen from miles away, it looks like a giant pearl-gray dirigible hovering over the African bush. Up close, its true shape emerges: a sandy-beige concrete behemoth topped by a gargantuan dome and a copper cross that gleams in the relentless sun. Equally remarkable, the great basilica is built in post-Renaissance style and has two long arms formed by 128 massive Doric columns that reach out from the porch to envelop a 7.4-acre plaza paved with granite and marble. Has St. Peter's Basilica been magically transported from Rome to the heart of Africa? No, this...
...beginnings as an actor-director and finally to the status of cult figure to be wheeled in on special occasions, biographer Frank Brady reveals Welles as a thin man in which there was always a fat man trying to get out. Even as a tall, trim youth, Welles had gargantuan intellectual and physical appetites. It was not enough that he had prematurely grasped the concept that art was essentially an illusion, a magic show. He insisted on making his tricks as obvious as possible...
...White House work again. Was he serious about fighting those nasty special interests? He broke the strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Association and obliterated the union. Would he tame the Kremlin? He put Moscow's bargaining feelers on hold while pumping up the Pentagon budget to gargantuan proportions. Though the process often seemed serendipitous, depending heavily on events in Moscow, Reagan eventually presided over a microwave warming of relations with the Soviet Union. No one can be sure how genuine or durable the thaw will be, but it has helped Reagan enormously. With the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...
...landfills. Indiscriminate dumping of any kind -- in a New Jersey swamp, on a Haitian beach or in the Indian Ocean -- simply shifts potentially hazardous waste from one place to another. The practice only underscores the enormity of what has become an urgent global dilemma: how to reduce the gargantuan waste by-products of civilization without endangering human health or damaging the environment...