Word: gargantuans
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...Washington, D.C. At long last, the capital of the richest country on the planet had a cultural showcase of its very own. Costing nearly $70 million, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts contains not only an opera house, but a theater, a concert hall and a gargantuan promenade longer than two football fields laid end to end. It had to be seen, if not admired, to be believed...
...obtain space. Last week he announced his latest deal-six supertankers totaling 1.5 million tons to be built by a consortium of five Japanese shipyards. The price: $180 million. Even the Japanese, who build nearly 50% of the world's new merchant tonnage, have been blinking at such gargantuan orders...
Optical Pollution. Fortunately, a few developers have tried to minimize their projects' ecological impact-a hard task. For one, ITT Levitt Development Corp., a subsidiary of the largest U.S. home-building company, is building "Palm Coast," the nation's biggest "new town." A gargantuan project, it will in 20 years plunk 750,000 people onto 100,000 acres of now uninhabited coast land near St. Augustine. Levitt spent nearly $1,000,000 on environment planning to achieve a community whose residents will live in virtually pollution-free neighborhoods connected by canals. Housing density will be 2.5 homes...
Mather House is the future. Stone cold, fluorescent, angular, it juts into our eyes like a stiletto from the next century. Its proportions are so gargantuan that even an unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
...bill's provisions for promoting efficiency likely to keep costs from climbing. Both Medicare and Medicaid have cost the Government far more than originally anticipated. There is no reason to believe that the Kennedy-Griffiths plan, the administration of which would require a bureaucracy of gargantuan proportions, would not similarly exceed initial cost estimates...