Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miracles performed by Christ, Stevens offers easy-to-picture faith healing rather than such tricky feats as loaves and fishes and water-walking. Then he lets his whole drama turn on the raising of Lazarus from the dead, a much-debated episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows its table setting from Leonardo da Vinci in order not to disturb the public mind...
...also opposed reduction of the amount of duty-free goods which American tourists may bring back to this country. It is more important to tax the wealthy expatriate who spends $10,000 abroad, he said, than to tax "the Kansas schoolteacher on what she spends on a trip in excess of fifty bucks...
...stifling economic dictatorship that Stalin imposed on it as a mirror image of his political tyranny. Determined to rush the transition to industrial power that had taken the U.S. and Britain 200 years to accomplish, he turned Russia into a gigantic state corporation that ruthlessly seized every bit of excess capital it produced in order to feed it back into its heavy industries-above all, steel-which are the sinews of a modern economy. With such a single-minded goal, planning was relatively easy...
...Brazil to Indonesian Arak, it is the universal base for alcoholic drinks. In Peru, where a drop in the U.S. import quota has caused a 220,000-ton sugar surplus, W. R. Grace & Co. intends to solve a national economic crisis in an ingenious way: Grace will use the excess to make, under license, Smirnoff vodka and Gordon...
...wear it to excess became in Balk's version...