Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overweight drag queen - really are lovable in their devotion to each other. As Robin blissfully makes up, Liza happily makes out - in the next room, with a cab driver. Soon Robin is over flowing onstage before an audience of cheering leather boys, and Liza is pregnant. Wretched excess continues as Robin heads for New York City to do his impersonations on the Great Gay Way. Liza, of course, is in labor. He is a smash. But her baby is born dead...
...make decisions-and made increasingly few himself. Though figures are hard to come by, because the Hunt companies are privately owned, the Hunt family fortune was once estimated at $2 billion. The best estimate of the net worth of Ray's half of the empire today is "in excess of $300 million...
There are ambitious mavericks in every field (Clay Felker of New York in magazines, Rupert Murdoch in newspapers) who know the expected limits of respectability in their craft, but choose to succeed by excess. Arledge is such a man. His conversation is full of proper responses ("A commentary mustn't fight the film," "The single biggest problem of television is that everyone talks so much," "The first law of football is that when the teams line up, you go to the play-by-play man"); yet it is he who stuffed the Monday night booth with three garrulous commentators...
...computer perhaps once every six months, if then. Though the Soviet State Bank is the world's largest banking operation, it does not possess a modern computerized check-processing and accounting system. Stores do not use computers for charge accounts, since Soviet citizens are not permitted this capitalist excess, and they have not computerized other parts of their operations, like inventory control. Aeroflot, the Soviet national airline, in 1975 bought two Univac 1106 computers, worth about $5 million apiece, from the U.S.'s Sperry Univac to automate reservations on international flights; but the world's largest airline...
Still, while it remains the champion of analgesics, aspirin has lately become a subject of considerable controversy. Doctors and health officials are becoming increasingly worried that many people may be overdoing a good thing. Taken in excess, aspirin can cause ringing in the ears, dizziness, mental confusion, stomach bleeding and, as an anticoagulant, special problems for those with blood-clotting difficulties. Not the least of its hazards is its interaction with other drugs. As the Food and Drug Administration's Dr. William Gilbertson puts it: "Aspirin is safe, effective, but must be respected...