Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Injuries are the bane of any ball club, but Miami, thanks to Shula's shrewd stockpiling of excess talent, has as much depth as any team in the league. That was demonstrated in the Dolphins' fifth game of the season, against the San Diego Chargers. In the first quarter, Deacon Jones and Ron East hauled Griese to the ground, dislocating the star quarterback's ankle and breaking a bone in his leg. But Shula had come prepared. In reserve he had reliable Earl Morrall, the seasoned N.F.L. journeyman whom Shula had picked up from Baltimore last April...
...Service, which sent an agent to the Tester plant. The IRS issued a notice of violation to Tester for clearly exceeding the 2.5% price increase guideline. Last week the Cost of Living Council announced that the Justice Department has filed a suit charging Testor with unlawfully collecting revenues in excess of $150,000. The suit also complained that Testor had hiked the price of its spray paint by 14% and recommended that a federal court order the company to reduce its prices enough to allow customers a saving equivalent to the alleged illegal revenues...
Grand Funk. There is nothing I can say about GFR that hasn't been said to excess already, except that I personally regret the fact that they come away with the best group name in all of rock. I saw them. They were wretched. I was standing in front of a massive bank of PA system speakers. I couldn't hear anything but high-pitched buzzing for two days. However, Funk is out from under Terry Knight, and that, at least, is a beginning...
...hesitated to indict an entire political generation. But even he falters at this point. Rather weakly he waves the flag of the new populism-an alliance of "Negroes, women, workers" that will somehow transfer power from the elite to the grass roots. He hopes vaguely that an excess of bloody rationalism will produce a rekindled "need for political humanism...
...Russell is a director whose appetite for excess verges on petulance. His enterprise in films like The Music Lovers and The Devils was not to reconstruct history but to disembowel it; one felt that if he were to try a biblical spectacular, all the extras would be wearing Mickey Mouse wristwatches. His directorial tone has the subtlety of a timp roll played on an eyeball. A new Russell film, particularly one about an artist (the dramatization of artists' lives being his forte, or rather his fortissimo), is therefore to be approached warily -especially with a title like Savage Messiah...