Word: gargantuans
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...stray mustache. The sets are lavish collages of deep textures and polished surfaces, and the outdoor locations seem almost too spacious for the limited confines of the television screen. When Louisa goes marketing, she walks by an assemblage of what appears to be every vegetable in England. The gargantuan Edwardian meals that she prepares are photographed with almost sinful clarity (six of the episodes required the services of a cookery adviser). What Upstairs, Downstairs did for class consciousness, The Duchess of Duke Street may do for icebox raiding...
...people who cooked up this thrill-less thriller are not entirely incompetent: they have brought Robert Morley back to the screen. In the role of a haughty gourmet-magazine editor, Morley puts on a hilarious show: He pats his gargantuan stomach as lovingly as a child might fondle a stuffed Teddy bear. He raises his bushy eyebrows so high that one expects them to graze the ceiling. He turns the mere act of getting up from lunch into a dainty comic ballet. Ordered by his doctor to lose weight-half his weight-Morley adamantly refuses. "I have eaten...
...zeal for systematizing and defining our political intuitions, Burns modestly attempts to establish a "school of leadership." His purpose is no less than to develop a set of "standards for assessing past, present and potential leaders," and to explain the role of human beings in history. However, given the gargantuan size of his undertaking, the book's failure to meet the high expectations raised in the prologue and Part One does not entirely negate its contribution to our common fund of knowledge on the subject...
...amazing to me that sociologists, law professors and others typically divorced from the realities of our criminal-law system are sought out as experts on the subject of plea bargaining [Sept. 4]. As a practical matter, bargaining is essential to this system, as a means of streamlining gargantuan case loads, and as a vehicle for ensuring the swift and inexpensive administration of justice, such as it is, in appropriate cases. Any prosecutor who claims to wholly eschew plea bargaining is dismissing a lot of borderline cases, losing a lot of jury trials or seriously misstating himself...
...broadbill, it was Peacock. Two other fishing boats tagged along in convoy as we tore out of the Cape Florida Channel at 30 m.p.h. The CB radio crackled with reports of battles near by: a 300-pounder landed off Fort Lauderdale ... a three-hour fight in progress with a gargantuan swordfish off Key Largo...