Stark lives in a cliff-hanging Malibu mansion with a gigantic basement that serves as his toy room and his laboratory; his private jet comes equipped with female flight attendants who double as in-flight pole dancers.
By Ben McGrath For those not lucky enough to have tickets to last Thursday's Democratic debate at Pace University, downtown, the place to be was not the so-called spin room — a gigantic basement gymnasium hastily equipped to accommodate four hundred media reps bent on seeing Wesley Clark's début.
The traffic in the Blackwall tunnel, the sneering City, the billionaires building gigantic basements, the insane value of small flats, the hordes of tourists, the traffic in the Blackwall tunnel – it is all so appalling that media commentators as well as, you know, ordinary people are loading up their vans and clearing out of town, with parting shots at a city that deserves to be put to sleep.
The building's ethos is one of celebrating local, organic produce, with a centre to promote healthy cooking, and there plans for mini urban farms on the market stall rooftops – although that hasn't prevented the commercial imperative of including a gigantic chain supermarket in the basement below.
Thank goodness we had a gigantic chest freezer in the basement for her to put all the goodies in.
We went down a narrow, winding stairway to a basement synagogue, a gigantic room filled with noise and hubbub.
Water and sewer mains ruptured early yesterday on an Upper East Side block, leaving a gigantic crater in the street, flooding the basements of several buildings and forcing the city to close the block and shut off water to the area.
Before the store opens each morning, a gigantic garagelike aluminum door will retract into the basement, leaving no barrier -- no windows, no columns, no doors -- between the $400 sandals and the sidewalk.
Sondheim's night music occupied a single house in wry waltz time; Lloyd Webber's the operatic basement in melodramatic swellings — musicals, still, of Gigantic Importance.
The deal was sealed after a year of eye surgeries that made driving impossible and a night cowering in the basement with the dog while Hurricane Sandy sent gigantic spruce trees within inches of the house.
So during the two-hour rehearsal, I took myself down into the basement of a local theatre, lay down on a sofa in my gigantic ski parka, clutched my smart phone to my chest, and took a two-hour nap.
