Word: giant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant museum camera captures masterpieces...
Engineers have spared no effort in recent years trying to reduce the size of everything from computers to portable radios. But Edwin Land, developer of the Polaroid instant camera, has taken a giant step in the opposite direction. At an exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts this week, Land will show off one of the world's largest cameras, a room-sized blowup of his old invention that in only a minute can make a full-color, full-sized copy of a masterpiece...
...that picked Turner's dark horse Courageous over Ted Hood's Independence and Lowell North's Enterprise, conceded that the pirate from Peachtree Street might find himself in the first close America's Cup race in years. Since 1958, when the smaller twelves* replaced the giant J-boats of the '30s, no foreign challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer Olin Stephens, creator of Courageous. The low-slung challenger, which trounced rivals...
...dailies in the U.S., currently 1,762, is virtually the same as three decades ago. With many newspapers already devoting from one-quarter to one-half of their news space to syndicated features, more and more syndicates are fighting harder and harder over the same territory. It is a giant zero-sum game. "If somebody wins, somebody loses," explains Dennis R. Allen, president of the (Des Moines) Register and Tribune Syndicate. "If a newspaper adds eight new comics, it cancels eight others. It's highly, highly competitive...
...Presley gave rock and blues a gloss of country-and-western and a rockabilly beat, but he preserved the undertones of insinuating sexuality, accentuated rock's and blues' rough edges of danger from the sharp beat to the streetwise lyrics. "It was like a giant wedding ceremony," Marion Keisker said later, "like two feuding clans who had been brought together by marriage...