Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemporaries, and his life had become a legend well before his death in a shabby Paris hotel in 1900. He had wrought his fate in only 46 years, but they were, to put it mildly, eventful ones. "Nothing," as a character in one of his plays remarks, "succeeds like excess...
...press's proper occupation of examining candidates but to an increasing preoccupation with finding minute character flaws. The event that was giving pause to Gannon and others was the recent addition of marijuana use -- no matter when it occurred -- as a scandale du jour. The tendency to press excess was visible in a little-noted but unforgettable moment on Nov. 7, as all six candidates gathered in Des Moines for the Iowa Democrats' Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner, ready to discuss the issues. That same day Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court went up in marijuana smoke...
...proportion category goes to the Boston Herald. In covering Dukakis' belated admission that his aides had leaked the anti-Biden tapes, the tabloid devoted 18 articles to the subject, consuming all the news space in the first eleven pages of its Oct. 1 edition. With that degree of excess in the system, the groping toward common sense discerned by Stephen Hess clearly...
Journalists re- examine the rules of fair game, after the A question and then the M question raise the issue of media excess...
...gathering gloom may not be apparent to the expected 17.5 million visitors to New York this year. The city's jangling geometry is still energizing, the shops tantalizing, the street life mesmerizing. But New York is like the wedding cake in a bakery window: an exquisite excess of spun sugar covering a cardboard core. Beneath Manhattan's sheen is the New York of endemic corruption, failing schools, and racial tensions, a polarized city of 7.3 million where the megarich in stretch limousines look away from the 1.8 million living in poverty, more than 50,000 of them homeless. The city...