A barely reconstructed Communist, he favors rebuilding a new Russian colossus - and, few doubt, eventually leading it from the Kremlin.

Antitrust concerns about the combination have been misplaced: the new colossus will refine less than 14 percent of American oil, compared with nearly 90 percent for Standard Oil.

What will the new colossus be?

Does that mean the new colossus is urging Hispanic Americans to match Greek portrait busts?

Perhaps we can be of greater help by standing further apart from the new colossus, bridging the world with our American, African and Asian connections, as well as greater European contacts.

What's more, crewmen on oceangoing tankers plying the Hudson will ogle the majestic new colossus and then bring word of its wonders home to Taiwan, the Philippines and Greece.

But nevertheless, the great new European colossus that we have been hearing about has either been passive or responding to the American initiative and not launching anything of its own.

The way they played last night - or, perhaps, the way the swift, strong, oversized Flyers led by the new colossus, Eric Lindros, played - the year 2048 seems about right.

He drove across Second Avenue, and past the new colossus that was the Ago building.

The tiny thing that was Vintar clung on inside the new colossus, forcing down the combined essence of twenty-nine personalities.