Word: excessions
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...some of the criticisms are entirely valid. Reagan's highly conservative speechwriters, led by Patrick Buchanan, have been indulging the President's penchant for oratorical excess to a damaging extent. Before her husband's surgery, Nancy Reagan complained about the speechwriting operation during a private talk with Donald Regan, who conceded that tighter editing was required. Who will do it is the question. Regan has no time and little sensitivity to seek out nuances. There is no other senior aide with both the authority and the keen judgment to wield a blue pencil as effectively as Richard Darman, now Deputy...
...Saudis would like to cut prices by as much as $2 per bbl. to increase sales to the point where they could pump at least 4 million bbl. per day. In a market with excess supply, that would mean other OPEC members would have to pump less and cut into their own oil revenues...
...allow her son Tim, 17, to drink, and she likes knowing that other parents can't undermine her decision with impunity. "Despite what they think, parents often can't control what goes on in their home once kids start drinking," she says. "If teens drink, they usually drink to excess. And you can ask for their keys, but they have a spare or give you a key that isn't even to their car." Ellison speaks from painful experience. In 2002, a local parent supervised a tent party at which kids supposedly surrendered their keys. Nevertheless, several of them left...
...this tradition. Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Stroheim’s Greed, and Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo are good examples. But it’s still problematic to me that, especially in America, our auteurs have increasingly come to be judged by the extent of their excess. We seem to be constantly grasping at straws to rescue excessive mistakes of the past as well, like with Heaven’s Gate...
...female “friendship” or overtly sexual comedy and stays cute by never taking itself too seriously. Rather than being like Waiting to Exhale women’s-lib drudge, it more closely resembles a male buddy comedy like Bad Boys. Except that instead of excess violence there’s just a whole lot of Vuitton...