Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year the deal-a-day CEO of financial-services giant Travelers Group, Sanford I. Weill, called then Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to impart important news. "You're buying the government?" Rubin quipped. Well, no. But the remark was more on the money than either could have known...
...compared with Peter Benchley's Amazon, an adventure show starring former model Carol Alt and created by Benchley, who wrote Jaws. Not only is the series slow moving and badly produced, it doesn't show much skin. Instead of having fun with a story about a land of beautiful giant women, Amazon has six passengers of a crashed plane wandering aimlessly in the South American jungle. One would think the women's clothes would be shredded and useless after the first week, but somehow they always appear dry-cleaned...
...feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside its maw to swing the giant clapper between them. The brute force of that bronze behemoth and its lesser brothers, spilling out into the drowsy air of the Square, is well worth a dissonance...
...during which he received an honorary membership from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. "They were nice," he said.) I interviewed him while he sat against the Middle East's wall, selling CDs out of a giant box, greeting, head butting and autographing stuff for a constant stream of fans, from fraternity types to XZpunk rockers, most of whom treated him with either shocked amusement or the kind of condescension which I was trying to avoid. I periodically asked him questions. I occasionally received answers...
...brand as an economy line of cars for young families, branding it with the slogan "One Clever Idea After Another." At the same time, Plymouth's mid-sized Breeze sedan and the Voyager minivan received enthusiastic reviews from automotive magazines. But last year, after Chrysler merged with German auto giant Daimler-Benz, the company began to phase out Plymouth, first cutting off sales to Canada and then removing it from Chrysler's marketing schemes. Finally, after sales dropped 30 percent this year, DaimlerChrysler tolled the death knell on the line altogether...