Word: mammothly
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...Though the mammoth exhibition attempts to stress the movement's international dimension, it ultimately recognizes that Pop Art is as quintessentially American as Jasper Johns' U.S. flag - one of the show's highlights - and serves as both an affirmation and a critique of modern American values. The show focuses on the period from 1956 to 1968 - that exuberant era between victory in World War II and defeat in Vietnam, between the bland complacency of the Eisenhower years and the twitchy paranoia of Nixon's divided nation. It was a time of prosperity and materialism that embraced such pop-cultural Meccas...
Pryor acknowledges the undertaking will be "mammoth." But eventually, he says, historians will be able to download parts of the oral history from a website--going back to Clinton's first address to the Arkansas state legislature, which he delivered...
...Mexican political figure and you've nearly filled Mexico City's mammoth central plaza, you've done a good day's work. The mostly young crowd that gathered on the Zocalo to greet Subcomandante Marcos and his fellow Zapatista Army commanders on Sunday took up a good 85 percent of the plaza. Crowd estimates were wildly inconsistent, but the order of magnitude is tens of thousands of people...
...Mart's real problem in Europe is a lack of scale. In the U.S., where it can shift massive volumes of stock through its mammoth supercenters, the company wrings price concessions from suppliers and passes on the savings to customers. Wal-Mart's 3,118 stores in the U.S. average 38,109 sq m each; Asda's 241 outlets are barely one-third that size. Moreover, Asda is primarily devoted to food, not higher-margin general merchandise...
...first round of the draft is always the most awaited and intense, but never the most important. It's the fifth and sixth rounds that separate the men from the boys. Who will come away with the steal? Who will choose the oft-injured player with mammoth potential? Who will pick the sleeper? Who will select the bust...