Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second, equally striking example, is the almost-completed gas kiln. Commercial models of comparable size cost in excess of $5000 plus shipping and installation. Rippe designed the kiln himself, and students are assisting him with its construction. He estimates that the kiln--which will be paid for by student registration fees and a loan--will cost less than half the retail price...
...agency-business work force lost their jobs. Even now, few agency chiefs expect a buoyant year in 1972. Says Foote Cone Belding President John O'Toole: "I see a gradual return to former levels-maybe not 1969 levels, maybe never those of 1969, but certainly in excess...
...allotted space opposite the editorial page with bizarre, often bleak fantasies about human foolishness. At his second best, he holds a funhouse mirror up to the nature of the consumer state. Baker's "growing family," for example, does not increase numerically but expands through overweight and the excess tonnage of possessions...
...available Democrats, including New York City Mayor John Lindsay. McGovern supports a dividend freeze as well as a wage-price freeze, and a "guaranteed job" for every adult who wants one through government contracting with private industry for housing, transport and environmental projects. He advocates an "excess-war-profits tax" on corporations while the Viet Nam fighting lasts, a minimum income tax for the wealthy, a negative income tax for the poor, and reduced oil and gas depletion allowances. In foreign policy he takes the usual liberal positions: he is for selling planes to Israel, against aid to Rhodesia, sympathetic...
Bacon's work is not pessimistic (or optimistic, for that matter), for it lives outside these parentheses on a terrain of amoral candor about the most extreme situations. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"-so William Blake, whose mask Bacon once painted. Bacon's career has been a pursuit of this truth, from the transvestite bars of 1920s Berlin to the green baize of Monte Carlo, where he still assuages his passion for gambling. He is the Genet of painting, most particularly in the lavishness with which he uses his own psyche as experimental...