Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dartmouth and a year at the Yale School of Drama, Gilroy made what he describes as "an all-out total assault on TV." He conquered. He has been all over the channels from Studio One to the Kraft Theater. With some movie work as well, he eventually had enough excess cash to take time off in 1957 to write Who'll Save the Plowboy? for off-Broadway production, an award-winning somber tale of a life saved in combat only to rot in peace...
GREGORIO PRESTOPINO-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. As a painter, Prestopino carries no excess baggage: he carves clean chunks of landscape from pastry-rich impasto, props blunt black boulders and fallen trees around like sentries, guides the eye to figures of feverish hue-orange, red, pink, green-wading in lily ponds and squatting in lakes. Recent oils. Through...
Ultrasound clearly outlines the excess fluid (ascites) in the abdomen of patients with many types of disease. Glasgow's Dr. Ian Donald has perfected his technique to the point where he can distinguish between an abdomen with ascites caused by a benign tumor, and one with ascites caused by cancer...
...liked, threw fifties and hundreds of dollars away on 7-Up bottles they called champagne, for $13. I hardly want to become maudlin: they had the money, after all, to throw away. And there is such a vast emptiness in lives of transit that, once ashore, you ache for excess...
Ironically, however, what really ails the book is an excess of integrity. To work at all, a contemporary thriller must convince the reader that, beneath a thin shell of authentic background, all hell can and will break loose any minute. But Thayer is so faithful in rendering the Berlin situation of the near past that it is impossible to believe that anything more than another standoff will result from the tense confrontation between U.S. and Russian forces that he creates as climax. It is all a little like reading a cliff-hanging account of the Battle of Jutland. Instructive...