Word: giant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waking Giant...
...largest food retailers unexpectedly took the 120-year-old company at its word. The private Tengelmann Group made a friendly deal to pay $78.5 million to four holders of A & P stock, including heirs of the founding Hartford family,* for their 42% controlling interest in the ailing giant...
...electrical power and 25% of its home heating needs. Rheinbraun alone has already dug seven open-pit mines, including the world's largest: the Fortuna-Garsdorf pit, which measures roughly 1.2 miles across and about 820 ft. deep. In October it began preliminary excavation at the giant 32-sq.-mi. Hambach site, parts of which will be gouged more than a quarter of a mile into the earth...
...every old cliche one can imagine, and manages to make this film as disappointing in the end as it was promising in the beginning. He doesn't just beat a dead horse--he tortures it, and watching The Last Wave, one gets the feeling that Weir is still one giant step away from being a satisfying director...
...evil white and primitive good. A few scenes of the ghetto in which the Aborigines live are lifeless, the city has no character, and the film disintegrates into stock effects. Chamberlain discovers a secret Aborigine city beneath Sydney, and learns that an ancient white civilization was destroyed by a giant tidal wave, and that another one is due very soon. Some sort of eternal justice will destroy the white man's injustice. At the very end of the film, Chamberlain escapes from the underground city only to look up and see the big water...