Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...includes, however, one fine set piece of the absurd: the mock-epic failure of a farmer named Hugo to get his cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks
Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film criticism. She comes on chatty and playful when talking about film techniques, valuing good stars above acting and sensual excess over rigor, all the time letting us know that under that tigress bite of hers beats a heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient...
...time of excess, "everything is marketable," says Bucky's neighbor, a hack writer who lives on canned tomato soup and saltines. He is working on a new literary form: pornography for children. Globke, Bucky's anxious manager, is a winsome monster because he is totally aware of what he is. "I'm not new money, new culture, new consciousness," he says. "I emerge from a distinct tradition. Bad taste...
...quota system now in use was developed in 1969 by a committee headed by Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House. Stewart said yesterday that according to the formula, quotas are based on the ideal number of students a suite will hold--one to a bedroom. The excess population is assigned to equalize the proportion of overcrowded suites...
Refineries are simply not turning out as much gasoline as motorists want to buy. Production currently is running around 42 million bbl. a week, but consumers are buying about a million barrels a week more than that. The excess is being siphoned out of gasoline inventories, which are about 16% below those of a year ago. This summer, demand is expected to hit 50 million bbl. a week. One main reason: manufacturers put nearly 11 million new cars on the highways last year, and more of them than ever before are equipped with air conditioning and other power options that...