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Throughout the play, overblown production techniques inadvertently makes the play more funny than awe-inspiring. The final scene, a bitter exchange between Jason and Medea, is a case in point. The chariot from Euripides' play is here replaced with a gargantuan elevator/space ship device complete with glowing neon tubes. Medea, suspended in this contraption, curses Jason through the chain link fence while industrial music crashes away and lights flash. Dwarfed by the "E.T"-like production, the exchange itself seems rather trifling...
Could humans follow their robots to the stars? Because people and their life-support systems are so massive, it would take gargantuan amounts of energy and time to get anywhere. By one estimate, a round trip to a nearby star at one-tenth the speed of light would take 500 times the energy the U.S. produces in a year. Many scientists argue that no society would ever find the trip worth it, unless perhaps the sun were threatened with imminent destruction -- an event not due for 5 billion years...
Compared with the Pentagon's gargantuan overall budget, that hardly amounts to a dime's worth of difference. Neither candidate devotes much public attention to military issues; neither has been heard to utter the phrase "peace dividend" in campaign speeches. And with good reason. In this recession-blighted election year, cutting troop levels and slashing Pentagon budgets can mean higher unemployment. The formerly onerous burden of military spending now looks to presidential -- and congressional -- aspirants very much like a jobs-and-votes program. Clinton hews closely to the Administration line on defense for other reasons as well: to pre-empt...
Honey, load the Winnebago! Proprietors hope the gargantuan Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
Earlier in the week Mahfouz resigned his post "to combat these false charges," and the same day silver plunged on European exchanges as his bank, Saudi Arabia's largest, dumped gargantuan amounts of the metal. The silver shock spilled into oil stocks, which helped fuel a 44-point slide in the Dow- Jones average on the New York Stock Exchange. Although silver and stocks recovered, the turmoil in those markets was the first close-to-home repercussion of the B.C.C.I. scandal in the U.S. It may not be the last...