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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, Puzo also eats like he reads. He has attempted to leave 50 excess pounds on fat farms in the U.S. and Europe but the burden always finds its way back home. "My wife tries to feed me salads and my kids wrestle me from the refrigerator door," he says. But in the middle of the night, insomniac Puzo frequently drifts down to the kitchen and prepares his favorite snack: spaghetti smothered in butter sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paperback Godfather | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...promotional cheapies are few. Rather than compete for passengers, the European airlines band together in "pools," or market-sharing arrangements. On the Paris-London run, for example, Air France and British Airways schedule their flights at different times to avoid competition as well as costly excess capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying the Crowded Skies | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut, as the vehicle for resuming activity after a season's hiatus. And it is the inaugural offering of the second "Broadway at Brandeis" season here at the Spingold Theatre in nearby Waltham. With such a wondrous work, however, this overlapping by no means constitutes excess--or "surfeit," to use the play's own word for one of its major themes...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Here and There A 'Twelfth Night' | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...dance (choreographed by Graciela Daniele) in which the white-masked members of the court all participate. We seem to be watching a traditional Twelfth Night masque. And all this preliminary music gives added point to the play's opening lines, in which Duke Orsino refers to the "excess" of music, to a "dying fall" (which is accurately fitted to a descending cadence), and finally requests a halt...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Here and There A 'Twelfth Night' | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...finally calmed down. Under the management of former Professional Golfer Sandra Haynie, now an athletes' agent, Navratilova bought a home and went on a rigid diet. With Haynie courtside wagging signals, Martina brought her temper under control and soon was chopping down opponents, as well as her own excess poundage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swedish-Czech Coronation | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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