Word: gargantuans
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...playground design, the fourth graders at St. Lazarus School in East Boston planned their own "Possible Dream." Their mural-sized drawing depicts a "ride through space." which is taken on a yellow slide entered at top through an Apollo-type capsule. They also intend to throw objects at a gargantuan mouse-target who wears a sign saying "cheese please." A badminton court, and a spook house which has an octopus guarding it are among other parts of their dream...
...slave girls languish alongside posturing tragedy heroines and cherubic children. Emanuel Leutze's classic, Washington Crossing the Delaware, looms in its full-size 264-sq.-ft. version. Tiffany lamps and cut-glass bowls of dazzling intricacy vie with gingerbread mantelpieces. At first glance the Metropolitan Museum's gargantuan exhibition of 19th century American art, architecture and decoration seems about as serious an undertaking as a rainy afternoon spent in grandmother's attic. On second look, it proves to be a well-planned, scholarly survey of an oft-disparaged, still underestimated century...
...months of 8-hour days with the aid of ten assistants, 592 sheets of aluminum base, each mounted at a 60° angle to the wall, 1,000 Ibs. of paint in 347 different colors and a whopping cost of $100,000. Whatever its physical qualifications, Agam's gargantuan mural in the new cultural center of Leverkusen, West Germany, is a landmark in kinetic painting...
...estimable leader of the Boston Opera Company, has labored for years to keep some sort of permanent company in Boston, but she has been only mildly successful. With no regular theatre, and only the financial support which she can raise through the force of her personality, Miss Caldwell has gargantuan problems in putting on a full schedule each season. For several years now, she has attempted to produce the Boston premiere of Roger Sessions' Montezuma . but financial problems have prevented her from doing...
...made his stage debut in an off-Broadway production of E.E. Cummings' Him. Lionel appeared on radio with Fred Allen and Fanny Brice. Then he drifted into movies, where he scored as a poet-of all things-in The Scoundrel (1934). His face (complete with unmatching eyes) and gargantuan physique made him a natural for the type of comic semi-heavy (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, A Star Is Born) so ubiquitous in the '30s. "Everybody's pal, that was me. If I had a romance, it had to be funny...