Word: gargantuans
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...value beauty and youth, professor Caroline Elkins and her course, Historical Study A-21 “Africa and Africans,” offer a satisfying dose of both. Students describe the Pulitzer-prize-possessing professor as funny, provocative, and opinionated. The dynamic lecturer who teaches by condensing a gargantuan subject into manageable themes and case studies also wows students with her sophisticated fashion sense. Aesthetics aside, Cosmo readers and African history enthusiasts alike appreciate this class’s reasonable course load.Asian fetishists, head on over to Historical Study A-14 “Japan: Traditions and Transformations...
...thus a bit of traditional movie glamour, are Cummings and the heroine, Arlene Dahl, whose gown Alton lends a silky luster. The angles are, of course, lower than low, giving the viewers the impression they are the masses staring up at these puffed-up figures of power, these gargantuan gargoyles...
...Spillane obsession with spectacularly cantilevered women finds its modern expression in the gargantuan, silicon-sweetened contours of Pamela Anderson and her pin-up siblings. As for Spillane's attention to the particulars of violence, it has pretty much taken over action films, including the most ambitious ones. It's in the acrobattles of Sin City and the blood-love of Quentin Tarantino. The crimson orgasms that Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in The Wild Bunch, Spillane had put on the page 20 years earlier, and reaped much the same condemnation...
...says Karen Cathey, incoming chair of the American Institute of Wine and Food. "They've modernized American food," says Clark Wolf, a food and restaurant consultant, and the chain's national reach gives every new dish leverage over millions of American taste buds. With its kitchen-sink menu and gargantuan portions, the Cheesecake Factory is big-tent cuisine at its most expansive. It is a restaurant where everything is included but nothing is authentic, and it is changing the way we think about American food...
...demand of the pro-democracy movement not met by his first offer to the political parties heading the movement, which was rejected. The King's offer was met with loud cheers and firecrackers from the streets in parts of Kathmandu, the capital, where protestors were gearing up for a gargantuan rally that was due to be held on Tuesday. However, it was still too early to say if the King's offer, even though it is the biggest concession he has so far made to the pro-democracy movement, will be enough to defuse Nepal's political crisis. The more...