Word: behemothly
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...Jurassic Park a home-video behemoth...
...this backstage story there are no villains, unless it is the lumbering behemoth that Hollywood filmmaking has become. In the '30s a director like Michael Curtiz made six or seven pictures a year. Even today, TV can crank out a news-based movie (on Tonya Harding or the Waco siege) within a couple of months of the event. But in theatrical features, where everyone is conscious of art, ego and the roll of megamillion-dollar dice, the average film takes a couple of years from first draft to opening...
Airlines have begun to cater specifically to the itinerant bargain hunters. Between October and March, Northwest Airlines offered a "Shop Till You Drop" tour that flew Britons and Japanese to the Mall of America in Bloomington, ) Minnesota, a 4.2 million-sq.-ft. behemoth with 420 stores. On the plan for the Britons, single-minded consumers boarded a plane in London late Friday afternoon, got to Minneapolis Saturday morning, shopped all day and arrived back in London early Sunday. "We compared a dozen items -- perfumes, blue jeans, fancy stationery items like Montblanc pens -- bought at the Mall of America to what...
...double entendre? CIA Director James Woolsey, called on the carpet today by the Senate Intelligence Committee about a mysterious $310 million spy complex, denied the project's cost and size were kept from Congress. At the hastily called public hearing, Woolsey said the committee has been told about the behemoth at least nine times since 1990. Among the contents of several hefty volumes of brief-ings he turned over: a May 29, 1992, paper listing costs of $309 million...
...software industry. Microsoft admitted no guilt but agreed to loosen licensing arrangements with computer manufacturers, which often pre-load their machines with the firm's operating systems. The deal may spur more competition for Microsoft, but it removes the threat that the government will try to break up the behemoth...