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...there is no mold. Bobby is, first, an excellent athlete, one of the best tennis players the game has seen. But more important to his present endeavor, he is also an original-a garrulous, demonic elf, a street-shrewd promoter who has finally found a way to satisfy his gargantuan appetite for both action and attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bobby Runs and Talks, Talks, Talks | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...mayor of Cambridge is CCA-endorsed Barbara Ackerman, a Smith alumna and housewife with ten years of elective municipal posts behind her. She chaired the City's Committee on Transportation which successfully battled the State Department of Public Works over several unsightly gargantuan expressways that would have exacerbated the city's housing crisis...

Author: By Travis P. dungan, | Title: Cambridge: A Long History Of Divisiveness | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...like a Brooks Brothers bathrobe, or a towel set. I would like to not care who Philip Roth is, whether or not he has earned the license to write a novel so apparently decadent and outrageous, or whether this is the appropriate follow-up to a story about a gargantuan sci-fi mammary gland. The Great American Novel is certainly utterly bereft of Greatness, but it is great in the way that Tony the Tiger intones the word. And it is not, as some have intimated, the pretentious and self-indulgent product of a jaded literary titan who has nothing...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: The Whiteness of the Ball | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

...gargantuan 20,000-word interview in Rolling Stone, with Andy Warhol asking the questions, Truman Capote talks about a rambling array of subjects, including his half-finished, long-promised 800-page novel, Answered Prayers. It is, says Capote, about real people after World War II. One of them is a 19-year-old college girl who has an affair with her roommate's father. And the father is presidential timber. At least he thinks he is. Before four consecutive nominating conventions, he confidently expects to be the Republican candidate. Who is the character modeled after? Capote coyly refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1973 | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...water table. That would not only remove buoyant support from the subsurface clay above the caverns, but would also cause additional structural damage to the cavern roof by increasing the downward velocity of fresh water seeping into the earth. The eventual result, says Newton, can sometimes be a gargantuan collapse like the one Shelby County's residents call the "December giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The December Giant | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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