Often hundreds of meters deep, and extending for hundreds of kilometers, these immense fluvial features likely required a climate that was warm enough, at least transiently, to have produced enough rain (or snow) to carve them.
A little more than three feet high, five hundred and twenty-four feet long, the frieze represents an immense procession featuring more than six hundred participants — human, animal, and divine.
Superb themes by pianist John Lewis, and sweepingly inventive improv from vibraphonist Milt Jackson (who gives a fragile instrument immense strength), feature on these early sessions.
In the new show, the more porous giants seem to have won, for the moment, in two immense vitrines featuring multiple casts of heads, ears and hands as well as gold-wrapped honey bees suspended from loomlike arrangements of thread that suggest both rays of light and expanding musical chords.
It was officially called the closing ceremony, but it was really one immense concert featuring just about every Brit who has ever stood in front of a microphone.
It was officially called the closing ceremony, but it really was one immense concert, featuring just about every Brit who has ever stood in front of a microphone.
We have selected yet another way of dealing with the immense number of features.
It takes in such immense and depressing features of the human landscape as poverty, inequity, discrimination, environmental degradation, social upheaval, joblessness, terrorism and natural disasters - all of them matters of global importance, regardless of the day-to-day attention that is, and is often not, paid them by politicians and the mainstream media.
I heard graphic accounts of immense steak dinners featuring Midwestern beef of legendary tenderness, the particulars of Chicago-style barbecue and, for nearly 10 minutes, the heart-stopping wonders of Chicago's infamous multilayered, sausage-packed deep-dish pizza.
