Word: gargantuans
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Chicago probably has more collectors per capita than any other city in the U.S. And in Chicago, when a collector develops a taste for art, he is,likely to treat himself to gargantuan helpings. Walls full of it. Rooms full of it. When the rooms fill up, he will glass in the porch or build an annex. When these are full to the rafters, he simply buys another house...
...game will also be the debut for Harvard's new jerseys, lightweight outfits sporting a gargantuan "H" on the front...
...whose canvases have been getting so large that he is building a new studio in California in which to paint them. And Houston's University of St. Thomas Art Gallery put on view 147 designs by three farsighted 18th century French architects, one of whom envisioned a gargantuan stadium with seven times the capacity of the 45,000-seat Houston Astrodome...
Wall posters depicted a gargantuan Arab crushing a tiny Israel beneath his boot. Khaki was the predominant color among the milling crowds in the souk (bazaar). Most of those in the street seemed to be either policemen, soldiers, or members of one or another of Syria's plethora of paramilitary organizations, ranging from the "Volunteer People's Army" to the Futtawa youth corps...
Night Light. Then Hoving delivered his master stroke. He presented renderings done by the Met's architects of a gargantuan, glistening 136-ft.-long glass case (or, as Hoving calls it, a "vitrine") that would extend westward into Central Park from the Met's north wing to house the temple. The showcase would be supported by selfsupporting, interlocking trusses that would be virtually invisible; the whole temple would be lit up at night so that its contents could be seen from afar by passers-by on Fifth Avenue...