In a 2002 interview on "Conversations with History," a television series filmed in Berkeley, Power described a hypothetical need for a "mammoth protection force" to police a peace accord between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
His first question was about a 2002 interview in which she suggested that the United States might have to spend billions of dollars to support a "mammoth protection force" and "a meaningful military presence" if Palestinian statehood were ever to be realized.
Like Hawks, Vidor and others, including George Stevens and John Ford, he helped establish just how mammoth a creative force a Hollywood director could be in the era when the big studios were erecting their dream factories.
"I can't imagine a way in which Neanderthals would have been able to force mammoths down this slope and then up again before they even got to the edge of the headland," said Beccy Scott, an archaeologist at the British Museum.
In 1820, crewmen from the New England vessel Essex face a harrowing battle for survival after a whale of mammoth size and strength attacks with force, crippling their ship and leaving them adrift in the ocean.
I'd have been more surprised by the action-figure-obsessed gentlemen if I hadn't seen a very similar scene a few weeks earlier, aboard the J.S. Izumo, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's mammoth new helicopter carrier.
Both men and women are worried they'll need tremendous pants pockets to accommodate the mammoth phone, or be forced to lug around the device in their hands or purse all day.
They lived alongside hippos and sabre-tooth tigers when the country was basking in tropical heat, and later, when the cold came, shared the land with reindeer and mammoths before being forced to flee.
Since winning the California recall election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been vague about how he would deal with the state's mammoth budget problems, the driving force behind the ouster of Gov. Gray Davis.
The mammoth paving stones radiate the brute force of Roman power.
