Word: excess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nonetheless, the collection of literate yet authoritative case studies by Neurologist Oliver Sacks, 52, has been on bestseller lists across the country these past 13 weeks. "I am equally interested in diseases and people," says Sacks, who teaches and practices in New York City, and his accounts of loss, excess and aberration always seek the individual behind the disorder. Perhaps because such a readable combination of erudition and compassion is so rare, Sacks' four books have earned him a quasineurological disorder of his own: the assault of fame. "There are too many letters and phone calls," he laments. "After...
...books, exclaimed one French critic, "possess all the passionate excess of Rabelais' Gargantua, the verbal virtuosity of a Joyce, the demonic cruelty of Celine's best work." Mon dieu, who is this born-again Shakespeare? Charles Bukowski. You know, the 64-year-old Los Angeles-based laureate of American lowlife whose Henry Miller-ish paeans to booze and broads (Love Is a Dog for Hell, Notes of a Dirty Old Man) typically sell only around 5,000 copies in the U.S. In France, more than 100,000 copies of the Boho's short and tall stories have left the shelves...
...plug terminals directly into their wall sockets, without benefit of modem, and to program their phones like computers. Networking firms, such as 3Com, Sytek, Ungermann- Bass and Network Systems Corp., are stringing up mile after mile of high- speed coaxial and optical fiber cables and offering communications rates in excess of 275 million bits of information a second...
Hillis may be using hyperbole. But if the initial kinks can be worked out, his strange new machine will be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 1 billion instructions a second--roughly the power of a Cray X-MP supercomputer but at a quarter the cost. Moreover, the Connection Machine offers the hope of solving problems in machine vision and artificial intelligence for which today's supercomputers are woefully ill equipped. Says Stephen Squires, a spokesman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department bureau that put up $4.7 million for the computer's development...
Some of it was excess. Deaver admits that now: "I didn't run away from any publicity. I can't deny that I came out of the White House with an aura that was different. I like to think it was based on the fact that I did achieve something on my own, that I did change some perceptions on issues...