Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filming of Cecil Andrews' tragic act of self-destruction [March 21] shows that people like to see others get hurt. Consider the excess of violence on television and in films. While TV-news leaders condemned the judgment of WHMA's news director, the major networks all showed portions of the tape that recorded a man setting himself on fire. The networks cannot resist satisfying the public's grisly appetite...
...Local cocaine traders are sometimes brazen, sauntering into Miami banks carrying suitcases or cardboard boxed overflowing currency. Indeed, the city's banks have been embarrassingly awash in cash, much of it cocaine profits. In late 1981, the local Federal Reserve branch had a $5 billion surplus of currency, more excess cash than was in the dozen other Fed branches combined. Suddenly, in early 1982, the cash surplus started to fall, just as smugglers began transferring their operations out of South Florida...
...does not "pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." The money is intended for welfare, not arms, but churches do not monitor how it is spent. It is this willingness to bunk potential excess in the sunny glow of the social gospel that has caused so much trouble for the W.C.C., and now the N.C.C. Such bunks disturb Christians who view Marxism as the world's gravest long-term threat to human rights...
...things brighten again. He became a big country star, but - as if he were enacting a cycle of celebrity and retribution - things fell apart again. He had lost Myra, remarried, and lost his new wife too. He was sometimes arrested now, and often suffered from alcoholic and pharmacological excess. He was frequently sued by ex-wives, former employees and miscellaneous creditors, and plagued on several occasions by liens from Internal Revenue. In 1981 he nearly died from a perforated stomach. Jerry Lee Lewis has not only lived out the rock-'n'-roll fantasy but the horror story...
Durbin moved the sweetspot to the center of the racket head by removing excess weight, lengthening the vertical strings and adding two extra pounds of tension to them...