Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This spring Marimekko has come of age. Veering away from the pseudo ivy league button-down, shirtwaist styles, and the blatant tents for which it had become known, its lines are tamer. However, the effect is definitely on the wild side. A few styles retain excess fullness, but most are slimmed down and even semi-fitted. The trend from small geometric and corny floral-like prints to bold architectonic designs is an improvement. Wrought iron and fossil prints as well as the large circle designs really grab you. Specific spring shapes are back fullness, semi-A (fitted to waist), real...
Courts have held that a parodist is infringing on a copyright if he carries the borrowing to excess, but Mad's barely recognizable parodies of the song lyrics, said Kaufman, fell within the traditional "fair use" rule. It could hardly be considered unfair that the Mad versions were cast in the same meter as the original lyrics: "We doubt that even so eminent a composer as Irving Berlin should be permitted to claim a property interest in iambic pentameter...
Then, in an answer that he used as his peroration, he apostrophized the American free enterprise system in a way that few of his predecessors have done. "I am so happy to be a part of a system," he said, "where the average per capita income is in excess of $200 per month when there are only six nations in the entire world that have as much as $80 per month, and while the Soviet Union has three times as much tillable acres of land as we have and a population that's in excess of ours...
...street cab stands of little towns, their hair freshly bleached, their nails painted, their high-arched shoes ready for dancing with someone who cannot come." > Pity is the cruel emotion: "If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone...
This program would still function as a substitute for an attack on the underlying problem: how to move the marginal farmer off the land. It makes littles sense to keep him there at a subsistence level. Yet, with chronic excess unemployment in the economy at large, it is reasonable to ask, where...