Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pictures in the mid-'70s, Dante learned how to finesse movies on a frayed shoestring. He and Co-Director Allan Arkush shot their first film, Hollywood Boulevard, for a niggardly $60,000 in 1976. Dante's solo directorial debut, the 1978 Piranha, was made for slightly in excess of $1 million. In this fleet-wilted Jaws parody one could see early signs of the Dante style, which keeps tickling the spectator to remember that, in Alfred Hitchcock's famous phrase, "Ingrid, it's only a movie." At the film's ostensibly terrifying climax, when...
...Amazon region has much of the character of an Oklahoma land rush. And they may have the same importance for the nations south of the border that the settlement of the west had for the United States-relieving overcrowded cities and rural areas of some of their excess populations. This could be especially important in nations like Brazil, whose urban areas have been deluged recently by a flood of migrants from the poorer sections of the country...
...history are villains in the dull popular imagination; millions of people, including dullards, relished this insight. By this time, success dogged Vidal at every turn. If you cannot offend your enemies, why not take it easy and join them? So, here comes Lincoln, a massive package bearing every wretched excess that Vidal so justifiably scorned eleven years...
...through the straits of midlife: the death of a parent and the consequent yearning to define and understand the past; the urge to turn over a ream of new leaves and the inability to change a single bad habit; the fear of mortality and the resulting impulse toward adolescent excess. Merely as a balancing act, the medley of tones would be impressive...
...tradeoff: two hit singles, Stop Your Sobbing and Brass in Pocket, and one Top Five album, Pretenders; two deaths: James Honeyman-Scott, the lead guitarist, whose body finally gave in to the cumulative destruction wrought by massive infusions of cocaine, and Pete Farndon, whose prolonged bouts with pharmacological excess seemed to accelerate in direct proportion to the band's increasing celebrity. "Because fame and success jumped on us so fast, we all had our own ways of dealing with it," Hynde says now. Other English bands of the period got mixed up between amateurism and honesty. The Pretenders...