Word: mega
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours' drive west of Manila in Bataan province, a sprawling 620-mega-watt nuclear power generator is rising on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Its $1.1 billion price tag makes it the most costly single venture in Philippine history. It also represents a record-breaking financial windfall for the country's champion wheeler-dealer, Herminio Disini, 41. His total commissions from the project could top $40 million...
...RUSSELL seems to have hit upon a formula for making films. He finds some big celebrity with little or no experience in front of a movie camera, puts the name in a title role, and crosses his fingers hoping that the mega-star's sheer charisma will carry the audience through two hours' worth of celluloid. But Russell's experience with Roger Daltrey in the forgettable film version of The Who's rock opera Tommy should have taught him that the formula does not necessarily work. A bomb is a bomb is a bomb, and all of Daltrey's striking...
...cows? Really? No, I'm not talking about the cattle on the football field. Mike, buddy, do you know what a cow looks like? No, I don't care about seeing a picture of a chewed-out pancreas of the Bos taurus on page 11,547 of your Mega-weenie B&D Super-tool Pre-med cadaver-scented Dissection Manual written by (surprise) the professor of your Worm Endicrinology seminar. Do you recall that this game was billed as possibly determining the League Championship? Enough said... 2) Tell me, my dear Mr. Savit, how many "cry-baby" sore-losers have...
...tickets, meals and a room at the inn. The Krofft brothers' answer: bring the theme park downtown and put a roof on it. Their World, built for $14 million (v. $300 million for Disney World), occupies eight stories inside Atlanta's new $70 million Omni International "mega-structure." It takes only three to four hours to savor, costs $4.25 per kid ($5.75 for adults) and, thanks to an advance reservation system, involves a minimum of waiting in lines, the bane of most theme parks. Since it is indoors, it will be open year round, days and evenings...
Rubins feels that television, that mega-media monopoly, undermines artistic work, encouraging indifference and non-participation from its audience. Conditioned by commercials, people cannot concentrate on long performances. Rubins says, "There are lots of things you just can't say in ten minutes. Maybe that's why songs are popular--they're short. You can say, 'Well, I had my little dose of meaning in Carole King today...