Word: gargantuans
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...Haiti and comfortably on the British Isles." He once declared that "man has the capability through proper planning and use of natural resources to forever feed himself and house himself and live in workless leisure." He dreamed of mile-high floating cities and of a Manhattan enshrouded in a gargantuan plastic dome. But he was more than just a dreamer. When he died of a heart attack last week at 87, while visiting his wife at a Los Angeles hospital, "Bucky" Fuller left behind him, in the real world, thousands of geodesic domes that are used as theaters, auditoriums...
...political bankruptcy, he has, on the whole, produced an admirable work. Taking 768 pages of text to tell the story of the first 33 years of Johnson's life (his career to the point of his first, unsuccessful race for the U.S. Senate), the book does justice to its gargantuan subject...
...other cases, however, the President is about to propose some far more important steps that he long resisted, notably a hold-down in military spending and some kind of stand-by plan to raise taxes if necessary to shrink gargantuan deficits. Nonetheless, these measures amount to much less than a wholesale retreat from Reaganomics. The President, indeed, sees himself quite accurately as making the minimal concessions necessary to keep a rebellious Congress from attacking the core of his program, chiefly the income tax cuts, the social spending rollback and the big military buildup. For that matter, the change in tone...
...gargantuan bricoleur, a user-up of discarded things, a collagist in three dimensions. His work touched base with the fundamental modernist movements, seizing and transforming something from each of them. From cubism and constructivism came the planar organization of form and the abstract language; from surrealism, the sense of encounter with a "personage," as basic to his work as it was to Miró's. Given enough found metal, he could launch into runs of astonishing inventiveness, like a jazz virtuoso improvising on a phrase. This happened most notably in 1962, when he was invited to make a sculpture...
Underneath the jollity, however, most legislators were deeply troubled, and with good reason. Rarely has a new Congress, and the President from whom it seeks guidance, faced such a menacing array of dangers: gargantuan deficits, ominous unemployment, a threat of Social Security bankruptcy, growing pressures for trade protectionism, uncontrolled illegal immigration. The consequence is a logjam of issues that must be confronted. Neither the White House nor Congress could allow itself the luxury of bickering and indecision much longer...