Word: gargantuans
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...this cinematic curry is to their taste, Americans should sample Sanjay Leela Bhansali's supersplendiferous Devdas, which opened last week in 33 U.S. theaters. Reportedly the priciest movie in Indian history, Devdas could be the most visually intoxicating film ever. Its pristine, gargantuan sets inebriate the eye, even as the plot?rich boy (Shahrukh Khan) loves poor girl (former Miss World Aishwarya Rai) and suffers magnificently for it?seems drunk on luscious masochism. The dialogue is ripe enough to provide song cues for nine fabulous dance numbers. But the fervid emotion and visual chic are what make the thing sing...
...Chattopadhyay's 1917 novel, has been filmed at least three times before, but surely never with such opulence as director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has lavished on the new version. Reportedly the most expensive production in Indian history, it could well be the most visually ravishing movie ever. Its gorgeous, gargantuan sets inebriate the eye, even as the plot (boy loves girl, boy loses girl, boy dies) seems drunk on luscious masochism. Khan, a total, tragic charmer in the title role, is bookended by two beauties (Madhuri Dixit and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai) with a sad wisdom to match their...
Pipes of all colors and sizes branch out in every direction, passing over gargantuan machines that resemble the engines of a cruise liner. In another large room, five monolithiºc boxes distribute roughly a third of the electricity Harvard uses, every hour every...
...text directly onto an iPod, for one thing; you have to do it via the computer. That said, the iPod's design beats Palm's hands down when it comes to reading text; with the trackwheel you can scroll through any document with one hand. And the iPod's gargantuan disc space, which dwarfs the eight megabytes of most handhelds, can hold just about anything--as CompUSA found out when an iPod owner walked in, hooked his device up to one of the store's Macs and downloaded the entire Microsoft Office suite...
...very queer!” Alice’s reaction to Wonderland appropriately sums up the aftertaste of Hal Harltey’s new film, No Such Thing. Whereas the usual Hollywood fare aims for gargantuan laughs, chilling fear or blubbering tears, No Such Thing offers hard-edged dreaminess and bemused chuckles. Experienced through the fatalistic eyes of young Beatrice, played by Canadian Sarah Polley, our world is scarily believable as a topsy-turvy purgatory...