Word: gargantuanism
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...white walls and gray carpeting. And for the first time in the museum's history, the moderns held center stage. The show, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970," was organized by the Met's controversial curator of contemporary arts, Henry Geldzahler (see box, page 81). A gargantuan display spreading over 35 galleries, a space that would easily accommodate the entire Museum of Modern Art, it traces the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism through its later manifestations in hard-edged abstraction on to the violent reaction that coalesced in Pop art. Essentially, it is the story of American...
...look out. Old Lyndon's reappearance was greeted by a mixture of nervous smiles and wonderment by his weathered-faced cattleman neighbors in the hill country and by the soft-handed politicians and businessmen in Austin, 60 miles away. Johnson, everyone said, would be a whirlwind. With his gargantuan energy and an ego to match, he would be into everything-buying up banks and newspapers, pulling the strings of Texas politics, holding rambling press conferences on everything from cattle prices to Republican snafus...
...horses--Marion Van Berg Stables. Inc., won four out of the ten races on Saturday's Rockingham Park card. When Arnold Winick won three out of ten races on a Tropical Park card in November of last year, the local papers hailed the local papers hailed the accomplishment as gargantuan...
...number of contracts signed in the last few weeks have increases equal to or greater than the Teamsters' 28%. Pacts negotiated recently are designed to raise wages and benefits 25% over three years for waiters in Seattle, 39% over three years for West Coast sawmill hands and a gargantuan 49% in 13 months for construction workers in Lorain, Ohio...
...overpowering chaos in air travel. Major problems are created by the need for superairports to serve superjets. Necessarily they must be located at great distances from the megalopolis each serves. And these airports will simply shift confusion from one place to another. Perhaps the answer is containerized people. A gargantuan crane straddles the plane, smoothly lifts the passenger compartment from the plane and deposits it on a monorail flatcar pulled by a power unit. The passengers unbuckle their seat belts and are whisked 150 m.p.h. to the downtown terminal...