Word: mammoth
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...from the Harvard Monday Jazz band, creating a piercing breathy tonality that summoned legendary trumpeter Miles Davis on his composition “All Blues.” In these moments, McFerrin managed to supercede the novelty of his vocal texture and managed to shift the focus onto his mammoth musical mind. Fingering the microphone as if it were a stringed instrument, he made as much an homage to Davis’ improvisational ability as much as he did the legendary trumpeter’s trademark sound. Using sparse figures and sliding ethereal textures juxtaposed with pulsing bass growls...
...country's media outlets to foreign ownership or competition. But there are expectations that things will gradually loosen up. In October, for example, Phoenix and CETV were granted permission to broadcast legally in Guangdong province. The government also recently organized its highly fragmented, state-owned media companies into two mammoth conglomerates, possibly in preparation for the day when foreigners will be allowed greater access...
...past several years he has also acquired mobile-phone carriers throughout Asia, and holds big stakes in emerging 3G mobile networks in Europe. Analysts say a restructured Global Crossing could be a formidable and eventually profitable competitor in the international fixed-line business. But it's uncertain when the mammoth oversupply of undersea capacity will be matched by demand...
...Mammoth discounter Wal-Mart looks to be the big winner so far in a dismal Christmas season for retailers, happily reporting Wednesday that its holiday sales for the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve came in above company expectations of a 4-6 percent year-over-year increase. Rival Kmart, meanwhile, said its sales from Nov. 22 to Dec. 23 came in at the low end of expectations, but picked up considerably in the last few shopping days before Christmas, with winter apparel - thanks to some cold days - finally getting off the ground. And the ultimate in lazy...
...more at ease when talking about environmental issues or, better yet, the love of his life, Sundance. He warms when he speaks of the "cinema centers" that at this point are still a dream. He calls them "a mammoth undertaking" in which grand old Art Deco movie palaces would be restored and programmed with independent pictures and documentaries and equipped with libraries for film students...