The biggest of these communities, Hildale/Colorado City, on the Utah-Arizona border, is full of houses the size of a Days Inn motel, stuffed with dozens of wives married to self-styled Mormon fundamentalist patriarchs.
Mr. Petry, who cultivates a schlumpy aura that is more headmaster than Master of the Universe — he carries an eight-year-old Blackberry the size of a Stephen King paperback stuffed in a nylon backpack and favors fleece pullovers — said he reads spreadsheets of education statistics as much as those for new investments he's chasing.
This is a variation on the theme of flaky pastry, inflated to the size of a sandwich, then stuffed with beef slices and cilantro and flattened.
When empty, the daypack compresses to about the size of a lemon and stuffs into its own built-in carry pouch.
Mr. Chan's store, the size of a small airplane hangar, is stuffed with art: spirit masks from the Sepik, smiling dance masks, colorfully painted shields, spears, fertility statues.
A veal chop Valdostana the size of a T-bone steak was stuffed with prosciutto and cheese, a special one evening that was tender, full of flavor and graced with a commendable brown sauce studded with mushrooms.
The size of the clothes you need will depend on the size of your stuffed sheep.
Under flapping white awnings, women slit open eggplants the size of a large man's thumb and stuff them with a mix of chopped garlic, red peppers and walnuts.
Last month a new official approach to counting heads claimed that some areas had fewer migrants than was previously thought.This is explosive stuff, since the size of a council's grant from central government is partly based on population.
