Word: excessions
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...after Rodney King. It's Clinton, not the Attorney General, who should promise a thorough investigation of Mark Fuhrman and his boasts of police mistreatment of blacks. It is the President who should swipe at the "code of silence" too many cops embrace when their colleagues are guilty of excess. Above all, it is Clinton who needs to say what we all know--that minority Americans are too often the victims of police misconduct and that the misuse of public power diminishes everyone, not only those against whom the nightsticks are swung. The President claims to have recently rediscovered...
...with decidedly mixed results. Colt seems utterly bored with Davis' life, more acutely with his girlfriends and particularly with the script or lack thereof. Most of the vignettes are minimalist sketches requiring a great deal of concentration from the actors and even more patience from the audience. With an excess of dead air and awkward exchanges, some studied but others accidental, the audience loses confidence that Davis will pull out a satisfying conclusion...
...laboratory? Two weeks earlier, these roly-poly fur balls weighed three times as much as a mouse should, and they still couldn't stop snacking. After daily injections of a new hormone, however, the tubby rodents suddenly started consuming less food and burning more fat. They shed those excess ounces and trimmed 30% off their bloated size. Even better, their cholesterol readings fell, as did the high glucose levels that made them mildly diabetic. Virtually overnight, it seemed, the mice perked up, preening and prancing about their cages...
...adult-oriented computer bulletin-board systems (BBS) whose operators are trying to lure customers to their private collections of X-rated material. There are thousands of these BBS services, which charge fees (typically $10 to $30 a month) and take credit cards; the five largest have annual revenues in excess of $1 million...
...sexual explicitness. On a typical day last week, his free-lancers brought him the Internet addresses of computers that proffered bootleg images from Playboy, erotic bedtime stories and stag party-style X-rated video snippets. All of them went into a kind of address book that has well in excess of 1,000 entries...