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...open 24 hr. Best restaurant: the Seafood Bar in American terminal (Gulf oysters, $2.50). Airport has 17 bars open until 2 a.m. Shopping: Texas souvenirs, apparel and toy shops. Beauty salons, barbershops. Airport clinic open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; after that, emergencies handled by ambulance service. Overall: gargantuan, but less awesome when you learn your way around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: TIME'S Guide to Airports: Jet Lag on the Ground | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...announced highlight of the fireworks display was the explosion of a specially built 126-pound rocket, the largest ever shot off in the United States. Although the gargantuan rocket exploded several hundred feet below its anticipated height of 2000 feet, the crowd was visibly awed by the tremendous multi-colored burst...

Author: By Michael Kendall and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Over 300,000 Modern Patriots Jam Esplanade for the Fourth | 7/6/1977 | See Source »

...responsible for keeping NATO's forces supplied with arms and munitions. Some materiel and reinforcements could be rushed overseas in massive air transports, like the C-5A Galaxy, which can carry to Europe 345 troops with their personal equipment or a load of sixteen trucks. But most of the gargantuan quantities of supplies required by any future conventional war that are not already prepositioned at depots in Europe will have to be sent by ship. This means that the U.S. Navy will need enough forces to keep the North Atlantic's sea lanes free from the increasingly threatening armada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: ARMING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...calls for baroque extravagance and Berger provides plenty. Esoteric words ("canescing," "superfetation," "glabrous") gambol freely with lowlife slang. Natalie Novotny, Wren's girl friend, refuses his offer to pay for dinner because he has already picked up the Czech. Objects and people are described in loopy, gargantuan locutions. A chandelier becomes a "hippodrome for silverfish"; an incidental character has "the dental terrain of a boar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loopy Locutions | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...Epstein's gargantuan struggles were not foist upon him entirely by the confusions in this production. Modern struggles have set into motion the languages and interpretations of Shakespeare's original play. The Taming of the Shrew unmasks the war between the sexes. And the battle in the Winthrop House production is as overheated, occasionally humorous and still unresolved...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Pick a Shrew, Any Shrew | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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