Word: mammothly
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...parade came to a halt at last in Harvard Yard, where a mammoth bonfire lay in wait...
...graze the rolling countryside, chew their cud and moo. In his controversial new book, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, Rifkin manages to blame the world's burgeoning population of bovines for a staggering spectrum of ecological ills. In the U.S., he charges, runoff from mammoth feedlots is despoiling streams and underground aquifers. In sub- Saharan Africa, cattle are contributing to desertification by denuding arid lands of fragile vegetation. In Central and South America, ranchers are felling tropical rain forests and turning them into pastures for their voracious herds. "The average cow," claims Rifkin, "eats...
...Imagineers' pink Victorian palace, boasts a giant Mickey Mouse clock and, at night, thousands of light bulbs that trace the spine of every ornate gable and cupola. The capacious lobby, with its 40-ft. ceiling, beckons you to collapse into its deep sofas and get toasty at the mammoth fireplace. In the guest rooms, a sculpture of Tinkerbell graces the highboy; in the bathrooms, Hyacinth Hippo, in her Fantasia tutu, cavorts in various poses on the bathtub tile...
Some skeptics wonder whether the inactivity might reflect Clinton's friendship with poultry baron Don Tyson, chairman of mammoth (annual sales: $4 billion) Tyson Foods, the state's largest business employer. Tyson and his family have contributed heavily to Clinton's campaigns and provided free transportation to the Governor and his wife in company planes -- an example of the frequent chumminess between Southern Governors and major industrialists. Environmentalists generally doubt that any crude payoff is involved. They think Clinton genuinely -- though in their view, mistakenly -- fears that strict environmental regulation will cost the state badly needed employment. Says Tom cKinney...
...these effects are like Lego blocks compared with the task confronting < ILM now: Spielberg's Jurassic Park, from the Michael Crichton best seller about dinosaurs roaming through a modern theme park. The mammoth mechanized beasts being assembled at Stan Winston Studio in Van Nuys, Calif., will be filmed, broken down into computer code and inserted onto the live-action frame to interact with the humans. Spielberg's requirements for absolute movie realism will mean a 21st century marriage between the modelmaking Gepettos in Los Angeles and the video futurists in San Rafael. One ILM animator says the challenge...