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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese resident reports that his bag was taken while he was eating at a Harvard Square restaurant. The bag contained computer equipment and textbooks totaling in excess...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CAMBRIDGE POLICE BLOTTER | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

...Menick fumbles and an excess of penaltiesprevented Harvard from adding any more pointsuntil overtime, but overall the offense had life...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, | Title: Wil' Call | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Wechsler found that students who drink to excess are more likely to fight, damage property and get arrested...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Ads Target Heavy Drinking | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...Poison cost $350,000; the 1995 Safe came in at $1 million; and Velvet Goldmine is about a $9 million production. But what a production! There hasn't been such a smartly gaudy spectacle of musical raunch since Ken Russell's Tommy back in 1975, when the road to excess was carpeted in spangles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In A League Of Their Own | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...confessional, ultrapersonal TV. Hers was television that cared, that wanted to know, that wanted you to spill your feelings and your guts and just forget about the 15 million people or so watching. Today, of course, all of television wears the Stained Blue Dress of Confessional Excess. Winfrey used confessional TV to explore, to empathize, to try to figure out where people were coming from. Today people watch Jerry Springer to see a good fight, to see a lesbian throw a punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Queen of All Media | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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