Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reading Pulitzer Prize entries, which are often written for the purpose of winning Pulitzer Prizes. Whole forests could be saved if we didn't actually put these in the newspaper and just sent them straight to the Pulitzer jurists instead. So these people have to read hundreds of heavy, huge entries, every one of them earthshakingly important. And that makes them really hostile toward journalism in general. Then they have to go out into the streets of New York and get into the subway at rush hour both ways. One of my entries was a vicious and unfair attack...
Only the venue has changed. Instead of Moscow, Renko must navigate the intricacies of the Polar Star, a huge Soviet factory ship plying the waters of the Bering Sea. Its mission is both prosaic and delicate. It must gather and process 50,000 tons of seafood to contribute to the nourishing of the Soviet people. But its suppliers, who do the actual fishing in exchange for cash, are American trawlers...
This joint commercial venture between historic enemies takes place in one of the earth's chillier, less hospitable locales. And when a huge net full of an incoming catch drops the body of Zina Patiashvili onto the deck of the Polar Star, the whole enterprise becomes icier still. Patiashvili had been a popular member of the Polar Star work force, dishing up food in the mess and making herself available to a goodly number of male comrades on board and, so rumor has it, to more than a few visiting American fishermen...
...immense, hand-blown stained- glass windows. In a brilliant conception, hundreds of colors splash across the nave in patterns that change throughout the day. "It is the church of light," says a mason at the site, "the light of God." The basilica, which is entered from a huge porch overhung with stained glass, is air-conditioned...
...basilica a gift not only to Africa but also to the Vatican. Though he discussed the project in an audience with Pope John Paul II last April, the Pontiff will not come to dedicate the church in September. (If he ever does visit, John Paul will stay in a huge residence built especially for him, complete with swimming pool, 20 rooms and a 40-room mansion for his entourage...