Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bryant Park. This two-block patch of green is the backyard of the New York Public Library, sitting serenely at one of the most famous and bloodthirsty intersections in the world, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. Every Monday night in the summer, they show a movie on a giant outdoor screen; the show begins at sundown, about 8:45, and starting at 5 p.m. people are filing in, staking out their turf. Here, as on the subway, as on the sidewalks, no one is going to give you an inch without a fight; all around us, people were plopping down...
...public school teacher with two kids in college, ailing parents, giant hassles with HMOs, a vehicle that has more than 175,000 miles on it, and dogs with fleas. Do you really think I give a hoot about what possible ethical violations [NATION, June 10] (not even criminal acts) Bill and Hillary Clinton may have committed almost 20 years ago? I'm not sure there's a person living, this side of Mother Teresa, who didn't do at least one dumb thing 20 years ago. CHRISTINE GRASDORF Fayette, Missouri...
...with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. At a Woodland Hills event, Buttman placed himself on the balcony opposite the podium, directly in Dole's line of sight. Yet the candidate did not acknowledge him, mindful, no doubt, that George Bush was ridiculed for talking back to the giant chicken that followed him around during the '92 campaign carrying a sign saying CHICKEN GEORGE WON'T DEBATE...
Under the law's provisions, executives of offending companies could be barred from the U.S. The heads of Sherritt, a Canadian mining company, Grupo Domos, a Mexican telecommunications giant, and Stet, an Italian telecom firm, have each received letters from the State Department warning that they may soon be personae non gratae...
...essentially solemn story, it still has an infectious giddiness. A sign over a manhole reads mon sewer; one song rhymes Quasi with "was he" and "bourgeoisie." At times the cathedral is a theme park, with cute characters, dark scary spots and a drain pipe that Quasi uses as a giant water slide. The movie may not soar like Aladdin or roar like The Lion King, and it demands plenty of parental guidance; but it fulfills the Disney animators' dream. From a blank sheet of paper, monsters and magic emerge...