Word: gargantuans
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Bittersweet Taste. Manhattan's Robert Kulicke, 45, has studied even more closely the gargantuan canvases of the abstract expressionists; he frames them...
...admiring view of Mencken overlooks much in his work that was malicious. That is not hard to do, considering the Gargantuan proportions of his sense of fun. It is difficult to quibble about a man who, as an agnostic, prepared himself for the possibility of Judgment Day with the statement, "Gentlemen, I was wrong...
...printed in the journal Literární Listy, which exhorted the leaders to "act, explain and unanimously defend the way that we have entered and do not in tend to leave while we live." Along with the manifesto, the journal's editors ran a cartoon showing a gargantuan figure of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev frantically pouring buckets of water on a tiny bungalow representing Czechoslovakia. A dwarf-sized man is peeking out of a window and shouting at him: "This house is not on fire...
...Angeles Times, whose gentle, low-key columns provided an antidote to the image of Southern California as a giant nut-burger stand; of a heart attack; in San Diego. As "the Boswell of the Boondocks," Ainsworth ambled through small-town California in search of such interesting minutiae as "the gargantuan battle over the bougainvillea, the rose and the iris," all candidates for small (pop. 25,000) La Puente's official flower. The hibiscus, a dark horse...
...large as itself. Out of the egg hatched a giraffe carrying a banner inscribed "Legalize Abortion." The Lampoon seemed instantly young and vital, and chuckles of observers could be heard in the Starr Book Shop. But suddenly The Harvard Lampoon convulsed into a ball, emitted a single gargantuan sob, and rolled, dead, into a wastepaper basket...