Word: cornucopias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troubled Daimler-Benz, which will carve 43,000 from its worldwide payroll over the next 14 months, 3,000 salaried employees agreed to mild concessions. They would accept Christmas bonuses at 60% of a month's wages, instead of 100%, and give up a cornucopia of fringe benefits such as reimbursement for a child's first Communion outfit. But getting real sacrifice is not so easy. To address the needs of an aging population, Kohl sought to finance long-term nursing care by dropping up to six days of the sick pay workers get. The idea provoked a minicrisis...
...Dolce Vita (1960), 8 1/2 (1963), Amarcord (1974) and 20 other films, overripe images spilled out of his cornucopia: clowns and courtesans, prelates and zealots, overripe creatures from a fantast's bestiary. At first they looked like outrageous cartoons of sensuality and sacrilege. But long before his death last week at 73, from complications after a stroke, it was clear they were previews of a moral system spun wildly off its axis. For 30 years and more, the word Felliniesque has defined not just the director's work but a style at the peacock end of film, photography, fashion, advertising...
...were really starved. We descended on Quincy Market like a pack--well, a pair--of wild dogs. In case you've never been there, Faneuil Hall is an indoor/outdoor market that houses a veritable cornucopia of food, food, and junk food. A lot of junk food. The most important things to remember, however, are salsa and canolis...
Inside the castle, the requisite decadent afterparty is in progress, complete with numerous open bars and a huge table which strains under the weight of a cornucopia of Southern soul food--barbecue chicken, ribs, corn bread, cole slaw, rice and beans and buckets of tangy hot sauce. Fast R&B blares over the sound system as after-hours revelers bump and grind on tables by the twosome or threesome in a spectacle of Breughellina excess. After two hours of this, the DJ decides the hell with R&B, and switches to Madonna. Downstairs, 'poonsters lecture some musicians about the castle...
Lederer relates a cornucopia of anecdotes about literary figures. Stories about Helen Keller who was freed from her "dark, silent prison" and taught to speak, read and write, or George Orwell, who laid down six of the most important ground rules of the writer's art, instill the work with human interest...