Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies will let you know that you're valued as an economic resource," Michalski said. "They know if they don't, you'll walk across the street to their competitor because of the excess demand...
McKellen, who comes from "a comfortable, comforting, loving family" in Britain's industrial North, departed Cambridge with a penchant for theatrical excess that earned him quick notice and a few severe warnings. One reviewer called him "a show-off," and McKellen took the criticism to heart. He started his own troupe, the Actors' Company, in part to counter this "tendency to act in an overly individual way." Later he accepted Nunn's repeated invitations to join the R.S.C., where he further modulated his gifts and moderated his flamboyance. Says Nunn: "I think Ian matured, and his presence...
...detrimental to our cause--which, obviously, I define differently from some other Blacks here. Unity must exist behind misdirected efforts. To those who accuse me of hurting the image of fellow Blacks, I say I honestly feel that the constant and often poorly defined protesting, the rhetorical belligerency and excess, and the ineffectiveness of the present Black groups damage our credibility in the larger community more...
Dolan is not at all concerned that he might alienate his GOP allies by running arch-conservatives against Republican incumbents in the 1982 primaries. He claims the party would be better off without the excess baggage, and calls Weicker and his ilk "completely irrelevent" in the Senate. "The liberal wing of the Republican party," he adds, is finally dead...
...seems, is Barry Hannah. There are few writers today who can match Hannah for sheer sustain--for the ability to keep extraordinary excess under control. He resists the usual literary tricks, the epiphanies and the neat endings, the sly references and displays of prodigious learning. Instead he revels in our perversity. He points to the airports, the pimps and the pinups and remains dazzled, amazed, repulsed and fascinated. He distills it all and produces the literary equivalent of grain Alcohol--a genuine Purple Jesus...