The stories aren't linked in any specific way, but it's been interesting to gather them together into a collection and track fascinations and preoccupations: children, belief, artifice, animals (especially birds, but also one very colossal squid), Sydney (my home town), memory, and anxiety.
It was a very human take on a colossal political quarrel.
From Indonesia, sambal samba brought a mélange of huge shrimp, sea scallops and wafers of chicken in mildly spicy chili (sambal) sauce; and another terrific dish called fire wok was smoothed by creamy coconut milk and featured a very meaty lobster tail, two colossal shrimp, sea scallops and lots of vegetables and cilantro -- a $20 feast.
Wes Anderson has always had a very particular way of creating these magical, specific worlds where emotional events of colossal importance occur.
Colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, can attack huge fish with the aid of a very large beak and tentacles equipped with swiveling hooks.
"Ironically, his greatest achievement was the one of which he was later most ashamed, and that was to get Concorde going at a colossal cost, very much higher than originally imagined.
He and Meigs had been close colleagues in the mid-1850s, buthehe pair had had a colossal and very public falling-out over Meigs's suspicion — justified, in turned out — that Walter was trying to undercut him and take his job, and Walter's fear — also justified — that Meigs was trying to minimize Walter's accomplishments and, where possible, take credit for them.
Not just a goal but a colossal thing of beauty.
There's a colossal irony here: the very people who currently enjoy the benefits of a subsidized, government-run insurance system are intent on keeping others from getting the same treatment.
Changing from an aquatic to a terrestrial life style must have been a colossal challenge in several regards, yet the colonisation of land by plants was nonetheless very successful.
