Word: maximus
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...swivels before it is pronounced serviceable, fabrics are doused with artificial perspiration, and all upholstered chairs must withstand Squirming Irma-a wooden model of a human buttocks that wriggles lifelike in the seat. Out of the lab come new products, some of which take the company beyond the glutens maximus. Items...
...developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium of $70,227 on a $4,100,000 policy) when Jean Simmons had an appendectomy, Tony Curtis broke his Achilles tendon and Supergladiator Kirk Douglas was leveled by a virus maximus...
...sullen and grimy way, has afforded millions of conventioneers a variety of pleasures, its convention facilities have grown woefully inadequate over the years. Last week the city solved that problem with the opening of a brand-new hall, the $35 million lakefront McCormick Place, "larger than the Circus Maximus of ancient Rome and more durable than the Colosseum...
...Rome, the pilgrims will visit the Circus Maximus, where early Christians were fed to hungry lions. Those who hunger for revenge can get it outside the arena at a refreshment stand that sells lionburgers; leftover anger can be worked off at the David and Goliath Slingshot Galleries. But, say the promoters, "above all else, Bible Storyland will be a happy place." One of the gayer rides will take paid customers to heaven -in a gold litter drawn by a team of cherubs. From the air, the "Shrine of Faith Plaza," Ur and the caravan route will be laid...
MacLeish set his play in "a traveling circus which has been on the roads of the world for a long time." Boris Aronson has complied by designing a circus maximus that is the finest set of the season. Doing away completely with a proscenium curtain, the set bulges out into the audience. A raked stage boasts a marvelously rhythmic series of ramps and stairs, culminating in a funambulist's platform that doubles as a modern counterpart of the old Greek drama's theologeion. There are ropes and pulleys, and part of the canvas tent...