Although Mr Pantani had been technically part of a team in all his races, his career was a succession of solitary triumphs against the giants of nature.
He is not King Lear, fantastically adorned with flowers and dipping in and out of madness, nor Falstaff, playing with an imagined meadow at his fingertips on his deathbed, but he has some qualities of both of those giants of nature.
Brühl gives the young race driver an aged sadness to go with the giant overbite that nature planted on him.
This weekend's activities, in Building 14, include making mermaids and other sea creatures, constructivist posters, giant suns and nature jewelry that uses found objects from the island.
In two songs from "Two Against Nature" (Giant), Steely Dan's first album of new songs since 1980, similar premises became more grotesque.
The movie is also a rekindled conversation between Mathison and Spielberg, the dreamcatcher turned corporate-entertainment giant, about the nature of cinematic dreams.
STEELY DAN: "TWO AGAINST NATURE" (Giant) After a 19-year hiatus for their songwriting partnership, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen returned, older and more perverse, with a new batch of slippery jazz-chorded songs.
When I was 10, I received a giant box labeled "Nature Lab".
Insurance giant American International Group, by nature of its business, provides extensive disclosure in its annual report.
The Galápagos archipelago is not only physically striking with its sapphire-colored waters and powdery sand, it also teems with nature: giant tortoises, iguanas, and other marine life.
