Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satanic seraph of psychedelic rock, lighted his share of libidinal fires before his death in 1971, but is his story worth $40 million of somebody's money and 77 min. of your time? Not the way Oliver Stone's tells it, as a display of pop fame's wretched excess. That was evident back in the '60s; 1991 is no time to wallow in the mire...
...Stone turned The Doors into a display of pop culture's wretched excess. "The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death," Morrison wrote when he was a student at the UCLA film school, and The Doors latches onto this fear in the first scene -- when five-year-old Jim sees a car wreck -- and rides the snake right to the end. In between come dozens of set pieces in which Morrison makes a spectacular, suicidal fool of himself: insulting his audience, trashing hotel rooms, dangling from 10th-story windows, engaging in a blood- sipping ritual with his witchy...
That was February 4. But while surgery was set for February 15, the doctors told Weisbrod that there was only an 80 percent chance that he could undergo the percanterous disectomy, which is an arthroscopic surgery that uses a needle to drain the disc's excess fluid. Because the operation does not physically alter the back, there is usually a recovery period of only a week...
Much of America's excess office space is in the hands of federal caretakers -- hundreds of office buildings and luxurious high-rises built by starry-eyed developers whose failures wiped out their S&L lenders. Just when the feds don't need it, a new small-is-good trend may make unloading those glass- sheathed monsters even harder. "Plush offices are out," insists Dallas broker Wayne Swearingen. "It's not in vogue to show how rich you are." Or were...
...heat of battle, too much victory may be hard to imagine, but the leaders of the coalition arrayed against Iraq should remember Versailles. By imposing an excess of defeat on Germany in 1919, the winners inadvertently stirred resentment among the losers that led to political extremism and eventually to another...