But glasnost has arrived, if creepingly, at the America's Cup, thanks mainly to the need for sponsors to support the monster budgets of the current campaigns, some of which have exceeded $100 million.
Some of these, like, say, Lenovo, Ford or LG, are huge, proven brands with monster budgets, and they to tend to hog more than their share of media coverage.
And a monster budget surplus.
The fiscal cliff doesn't happen until the end of the year when the Bush tax cuts expire and monster budget cuts automatically kick in.
It's a terrible time for American teachers — almost every school district is facing monster budget cuts, and a number of politicians have tried to make them the villain in the story.
But Fortitude is no eccentric little human documentary; it's Sky Atlantic's new crime thriller with a monster budget and cast (Richard Dormer, The Killing's Sofie Gråbøl, Christopher Eccleston, Stanley Tucci and Gambon).
Call in the developers — the coins are dropping and the counters in the royal chamber are taking notice, turning their buttocks on IT, now trying to figure out how they can cut that monster budget for that converged nonsense, those new-aged mainframes that the hardware vendors keep saying are the answer to world peace.
In March, he will play the lead role in Jack the Giant Slayer, a monster-budget Hollywood number based on the beanstalk fairytale and directed by Bryan Singer.
Six of his books have been made into movies, and a monster-budget version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (1964), directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the daft, dangerous, and endlessly inventive confectioner, Willy Wonka, opens in July.
An interesting contrast is the original Terminator, a cheap exploitation masterwork, versus Terminator 2, a triumph of monster-budget blockbuster hugeness.
Paramount's "Cloverfield", a low-budget monster movie shot as if by an amateur with a camcorder, earned $40m in its opening weekend in American cinemas last month, crushing the competition.
