Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Month, but Black History Month; not an identity rooted in African culture, but in a distinctly American experience. However superficially, such a name suggests that any racial differences, and all racism, runs only skin deep. Indeed, this is the promise of Black History Month: for all its silly therapeutic excess, it promotes a black pride consonant with that of the larger American community within which, for better or worse, black Americans must live and contribute as citizens...
...most worrisome problem is the trade deficit, now running in excess of $150 billion annually. The humming U.S. economy is sucking in imports, while struggling economies in Asia and Latin America have cut their purchases of American goods and services. The result is a current account deficit--the measure of net dollars owed to other countries--of some $226 billion in 1998. Courtis says if the U.S. runs a current account deficit of 2.5% of GDP--lower than his 1999 estimate--for the next four years, "the U.S. net external debt in 2003 will be over $2 trillion, which...
...houses, which would use the latest in solar-heating technology, would be built in clusters and oriented toward the backyards, which would open onto large common areas. Fruits and vegetables would grow there, using water collected by natural drainage (the land would be contoured to capture most rainwater, with excess flowing into ditches and ponds rather than concrete storm sewers). The streets would be narrow and end in cul-de-sacs. Winding walkways would connect the homes to a small courtyard of offices, reinforcing the theme of a community built for people, not cars...
...fashionable at that time to deplore the decorative grandeur and the Victorian excess," Knowles noted...
...relationship with Mailer was, as Trilling might have said, complicated. Podhoretz felt that Mailer, like Ginsberg, made an artistic pose of excess--too much of his work being merely a sort of riot against normality. Podhoretz stood up for Mailer after the novelist stabbed his wife Adele in the course of a fight at a party in 1959, but the two men parted company at last because they wound up on different sides of too many cultural and ideological barricades...