Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of confrontations--between Alfred, who returns to his hometown after an absence of 15 years, and Margaret and Will, who have never left; between Alfred and Emily; between Margaret and Will; between Alfred and his past. The themes that unite the characters are sexual impotence and sexual excess, the barrenness of lives imprisoned by material wealth or poverty, the lies and failures of memory that hide fear and guilt...
...work of the animator Ralph Bakshi - so enraged Fritz's creator, the underground comic artist R. Crumb, that he disowned the whole movie. Crumb, a stringent satirist, had conjured up Fritz as a way to mock the poses of the pseudo hipster and to lay waste the giddy excess of the culture from which he sprang. Bakshi slicked Fritz up, cooled him out, and turned him into the perfect creature of everything Crumb had put down...
There was Rangel, with big-city bluntness inviting his adversaries "to walk down this street" of evidence with him for a way. There was Thornton, speaking simply and sparingly with the unmistakable sincerity of his Arkansas folk. "It is amazing," Sandman boomed in a kind of McCarthyesque excess of sarcasm and leering, as he hacked at some pro-impeachment speaker's folly. Then came the patient, adenoidal, invariably intelligent queries of Wiggins, forever asking how the evidence touched the President. Or the schoolmasterly, quick thrusts of Dennis, clipping words and arguments...
...state agencies and changed only rarely. Though workers who overfulfill production quotas are showered with medals and occasionally cash bonuses, wages, too, are generally controlled, on the basis of supply of consumer goods available. If supply goes up 5%, say, so do wages. That way, supposedly, there is no excess cash chasing scarce goods...
...Some German shepherds have hip dysplasia (a flattening of the joint), attributed to selective mating of dogs whose congenital hip dysfunction gives them a long, graceful sloping line, but makes walking progressively more difficult. Chihuahuas, bred for large, domelike skulls, are often born hydrocephalic, become snappy and irritable as excess fluid presses on the brain. Neurophysiologist Richard Redding of Alabama's Auburn University has performed lobotomies on 15 schizoid cocker spaniels whose unpredictable behavior oscillated between cuddly and violent...