Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theatrics (these beat anything, anything you'll ever see in Barnum and Bailey--in "Mystere," there's an entire sequence of bungee jumping acrobats costumed as birds), you're treated to a two or three minute interlude of dazzling fantasy: a parade of stilted clowns dressed as elephants, a giant inflated snail floating across the stage, a five-foot baby bouncing a giant ball around the theater, a mirror reflecting the audience onto the ceiling. Maybe one day it will be trendy to like Cirque du Soleil--and shows will pop up all over the country just like Riverdance. Oooh...
...National Zoo displayed Hsing-Hsing, the giant panda commemorating Nixon's 1972 historic trip to China...
Item one: The death of Hsing-Hsing, the last remaining giant panda at the National Zoo in Washington...
...giant sculptures require months of preparation, and are carved block-by-block then glued together on site at Copley Square...
...makers of the now-infamous silicone breast implant. In a preliminary statement, a federal judge announced Tuesday that Dow Corning will pay $4.5 billion in order to come out of bankruptcy - a figure that includes $3.2 billion in damages to women who claim they were injured by the chemical giant's negligence. "This is one of the great cases of product liability in American legal history," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The whole case is very controversial; there are so many sympathetic plaintiffs saying they've suffered a variety of health problems." There are also conflicting reports surfacing from...