Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time. Ken Russell should have got sick of being told he has gone too far. But on he goes, each new movie an exercise in further excess. Mahler -which appeared in England two years ago but is only now being released in the U.S.-is a discombobulated. flatulent film that bears only a glancing resemblance to the life of the post-Romantic composer...
Everyone in Council of Love shows a lot of skin, but excess is rarely titillating. The gold costumes of the bare-assed angels, their short aprons secured by thongs, don't need to be so banal. The Pope's Children, on the other hand, are artfully decked out in the bizarre and gaudy clothes of medieval Italy, and Alexander VI's cap is shoved raffishly and appropriately over his eyes...
...decade ago. Then in 1966 Dr. Sam Sheppard's conviction for the murder of his wife was reversed by the Supreme Court because of the hostile trial atmosphere created by the press. Although the court did not mention gag rules as a way to control such press excess, judges began slapping them on. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has counted 192 such court orders in the past decade...
...case, he does not choose to become rich by following his own advice. "I don't trade in the market. It interferes with my work. It's a full-time job watching the tapes." But he does fairly well anyway. His salary at Anametrics is well in excess...
Glacé Blondes. The Grand Prix circuit is the class act in racing. Unlike stock-car drivers, Grand Prix racers are rich sybarites who zip through the industrialized world in futuristic "Formula I" nodules of fiber glass. Theirs is a life of death and daring where excess baggage means two cars and a couple of glacé blondes. "This is the only gentlemen's sport left," observed a Caracas businessman. "Polo and tennis are such a bore...