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...packagers explain to their clients. If the movie is a disaster and the partnership cannot repay its bank loan, then part of the tax deductions go to the bank rather than the investors-who will be billed for back taxes, plus interest. Oddly enough, if the movie is a gargantuan hit that brings in profits for years, the investor may be even worse off. Since he has taken most of his tax write-offs in the first year or two, his share of the profits in later years will be taxable. Added to his nonmovie income, those profits can lift...
...William Gaddis. In his first novel since The Recognitions (1955), the author chronicles the improbable fortunes of an eleven-year-old tycoon and takes a gargantuan swipe at contemporary skyscrapers of Babel...
Toynbee's work attracted relatively little attention and less praise when it first appeared. Reviewing the first three volumes in 1935, the Journal of Modern History sniffed: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that?" In 1947. however, in the postwar search for international understanding, Toynbee suddenly experienced the truth of the Victor Hugo remark about an idea whose time has come. A one-volume abridgment of the first six books of the study sold a phenomenal quarter of a million copies. (An abridgment of Vols...
Nigeria last year earned $8 billion from oil revenues, prompting the government of former Head of State Yakubu Gowon to embark on a gargantuan program to develop and modernize Black Africa's most populous country. Unfortunately, no one stopped to figure what would happen when all the goodies arrived. One item in desperate need of modernization was the port of Apapa itself; the ordered machinery and parts are stuck in ships unable to dock...
...deep shade of natural green, it has escaped--with a few other holdouts like Chicago's Wrigley Field--the lunar module theory of the modern stadium: the physical analog to the wide franchises and slick operations of the new corporate baseball. This is a neighborhood park--no gargantuan concrete egg laid in the center of a vast parkingscape, slabs for seats, plastic astrograss, and conveniently adjacent to the suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe with a sad history--a lot of Red Sox clubs winning hearts and losing still; heros now dead or in the insurance business. Fenway...