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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finds itself with a 12-13 overall record with absolutely no chance to make the ECAC playoffs which start next week. As for the final melees, who started them doesn't matter, what does is that those violent outbursts disgraced an otherwise prestigious tournament and doled out an excess amount of shame that will be both schools' to bear. Unfortunately, Boston University will have the playoffs to get over it, Harvard won't. An unmerciful season has all but mercifully closed...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Crawl, Brawl in Beanpot Loss | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...Jesus Christ, God Himself has entered into a human history." All the dogmas and investigations of the mystery of God in Christ, he concedes, "come up against an insuperable limit of thought, speech and sympathetic insight." To Kasper, however, this limitation is actually "something extremely positive, not darkness but excess of light, dazzling to our eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Debate over Jesus' Divinity | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...drinking"). His plots are, as always, mere runways for their adrenal characters. Yet, nearing 74, Farrell shows no signs of flagging energy, and he has lost none of his familiarity with the details of grief. His working people seem to have jobs, not roles; his drunkards sometimes stink of excess, but never of self-pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clock Stopper | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Though Feraud's mania never subsides, and though D'Hubert thinks him contemptible, the two are bound together in something that is almost comradeship. The mad intensity of their relationship burns away what in another film would be the excess of landscapes too beautifully framed and interiors too cunningly photographed. The Duellists uses the beauty of the French landscape to comment gently on the frenzy of the men bloodying themselves in its soft fields. In the end, after a resolution of sorts has been achieved between the two men, Feraud stands, back to the camera, looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dawn Madness | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Last summer, after an eight year long legal battle, a federal appeals court decided that despite a 75 year time lapse, offending landowners would either have to sell their land or do without federal water. In August, Secretary of State Cecil Andrus promptly issued guidelines for the sale of excess lands. Thousands of people turned in their names to a lottery for the newly created farms. And as late as November, Andrus was pressing Congress not to postpone enforcement...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Soaking The Rich | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

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