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...main characters in the sTory are gargantuan figures: Mr. Thrale, a lecherous, rich brewer, who stubbornly ate himself to death; Mrs. Thrale, a wonderfully vital, earthy character capable of marrying a second time for love after 18 years of marriage in which she had borne twelve children, and the bulky, bearlike Sam Johnson himself...
With these four gargantuan volumes, the job of collecting the public documents of Franklin Roosevelt is completed. Totaling 13 volumes (8,625 pp., 35½ lbs.) in all, The Public Papers make a monumental record of a nation in crisis and an indispensable source for future historians, even if not the sort of thing an ordinary reader will care to pick up on a rainy Sunday afternoon...
They had used the medical services so enthusiastically (the state paid $258 for the removal of 43 embarrassing warts from one elderly woman's face) that last week the state medical board was introducing a rigid screening of patients in an attempt to reduce the state's gargantuan hospital and drug bill. Meanwhile, the Washington Pension Union, an organization with limitless gall, was calling for even higher pensions for the future...
Lust for Gold (Columbia) is a feeble way to describe this movie's gargantuan appetite for adventure. In 90 minutes it wolfs down an Indian massacre, two murders, a barroom brawl, an earthquake, a fistfight on a cliff top and a mess of hocus-pocus dealing with the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure trove. Leading the sepia-colored scramble for gold are Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. Kids under twelve may believe in their adventures...
...nights after their television premiere, Olsen & Johnson unveiled their new revue Funzapoppin before 8,700 people in Madison Square Garden. Next morning the gun-shy critics produced mixed notices. "A gargantuan honky-tonk," sniffed the Time's Brooks Atkinson. "Olsen & Johnson would be practically scriptless if the Chinese hadn't invented gunpowder," grumped the Herald Tribune. "A cheerful nightmare," said the World-Telegram. Actually, Olsen and Johnson seem to be criticproof. Funzapoppin's predecessor, Hellzapoppin, was disdained by almost every critic, yet it ran for more than three years on Broadway...