Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding, 300,000-man bureaucracy and other reform-resistant interests, he has shattered many a lance. Yet his supply...
...Meniere's disease, but has also led to the development of an oral drug that appears to control the symptoms. The theory is that Meniere's begins with an accumulation of lymph fluids in the inner ear, apparently as the result of changes in circulation. The excess lymph, which causes the tinnitus and dizziness, can be dissipated by restoring this "microcirculation." Histamine, one of the body's cellular hormones, will do the job, but it is so powerful that it must be used with great care...
First step in the Yankee maneuver was to send Third Baseman Clete Boyer (salary: $27,000) to the Atlanta Braves, for a minor-league outfielder named Bill Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised...
...Three, Irma La Douce, and Kiss Me, Stupid--the man's last three pictures--were characterized not so much by cynicism as by excess. In all things. Kiss Me, Stupid, unquestionably Wilder's worst, was so overplayed, overwritten and overdirected that it seemed fair to call it his Armageddon. But with the benefit of hindsight, one can see that beneath the roughage Wilder has been brewing a new style of comedy. And the brew has come to boil with The Fortune Cookie...
...daring to schedule the opera in the first place. Big, sprawling and complex, Moses and Aron demands a range of musical and technical expertise that few opera companies could or would attempt. For one thing, the libretto calls for "an orgy of sexual excess," in which herds of animals are slaughtered and naked men and women run riot. Composer Schoenberg himself ruefully concluded that it was probably "undoable...