Word: excess
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...year '00 is supposed to be dangerous, seductive, ghetto fabulous. It's supposed to be so real it's almost unreal--like something beneath an electron microscope or blown up on an IMAX screen. Hip-hop '00 is supposed to be a post-Puffy dreamscape of excess and escapism and bouncing low riders cruising down streets clogged with dancers and azure pools lined with thong-clad hotties...
Although the rest of the dorms have since caught up to Adams in those respects, they still can't hold a candle to the excess of Adams...
Sotheby's, with Christie's not far behind, has led the field in this enterprise of simoniac strip-mining. No excess, no necrophiliac vulgarity, was too great--the $54 million Van Gogh Irises that didn't really sell, the degraded spectacle of Americans hyped into bidding tens of thousands of dollars for gewgaws that once reposed in Jackie O.'s lavatory, the nitwits scrambling for sole and unimpeded possession of Marilyn Monroe's faded frillies. So for many, the idea that the mighty auction duumvirate should find itself humbled for any reason was almost too delicious to contemplate...
...excess smoke escaped through the windows, and a Good Samaritan called the fire department with reports of "smoke coming out of a funny building across the street from Adams...
Safire is scrupulously forthcoming about the liberties he has taken. Historians may still grumble. But the only charge of excess that sticks is that the author, who has mongered a few scandals himself, appears to have had too much fun filching haloes from heroes and relishing the bilious style of the Republic's pioneer hatchet...