Word: gargantuans
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...positively gargantuan. She is 82 feet long, 30 feet wide, weighs six tons, is built like a zeppelin of chicken wire, fabric and glue, and is currently lying on her back with knees raised in a gallery of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art. A cross between an amusement park and a return to the womb, She is one of the most uproarious, outrageous-and incredibly popular-exhibits to make its debut in Sweden's capital in years...
...years of serving himself gargantuan portions, Hirshhorn has gathered some 5,600 works of art. They overflow his 24-room, 24-acre estate atop Round Hill in Greenwich, Conn., are crammed into the closets of his New York apartment, and accumulate in warehouses. His sculptures alone total 1,600, including 17 Rodins, 53 Henry Moores (the largest collection anywhere...
...wool lumber jacket, well-worn brown corduroys and a visored cap, Ceausescu moved out through the waterlogged countryside, past peasants in dripping sheepskins and gaggles of screeching schoolgirls, past hat-waving horsemen who offered gifts of bread and salt, past thatch-roofed villages painted sky blue and sienna, past gargantuan collective farms and gleaming new factories. Geese hissed, dogs barked, and Ceausescu listened to gripes. Sometimes speaking from a stack of concrete blocks, sometimes from the back of a wagon, he pressed home again and again a message more familiar to Western audiences than to Communists: "We are moving...
...yawns nowhere wider than in France, where 51 years of rent control have helped create a gargantuan housing shortage. Thus it is not surprising that the French have enthusiastically greeted an invasion by Long Island's William J. Levitt, the U.S.'s biggest homebuilder (fiscal 1965 sales: $60 million). More than 60,000 Frenchmen have poured out of Paris to gape at Levitt's recently opened American-style subdivision in suburban Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis...
Schoenberg wrote this gargantuan cantata before he made his break with tonality, but he deploys the oversized orchestra and chorus in daring polyphonic passages that alternate with romantic solos, sung beautifully in this recording by Soprano Inge Borkh and Tenor Herbert Schachtschnei-der. The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is con ducted by Rafael Kubelik...