Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some sense of the responsiveness of our politicians, as well as the limited role of contributions, consider Social Security and Medicare. These programs account for 35 percent of the federal budget, with an annual price tag in excess of half a trillion dollars. Many consider the spiraling cost of these entitlements a textbook case of special interest influence run amok...
Maybe that's because, by his account, she has already made a haul in excess of $10 million, even though, in the opinion of her coach, Evy Scotvold, "she didn't come off looking very good" after making some "terrible mistakes." Scotvold says Kerrigan should have been home resting after the Olympics rather than coming off as bratty in public appearances she was too exhausted to make. He mentioned the infamous Disney parade in which Kerrigan shared a float with the famous rodent and accurately confided, "This is so corny...
...dumped does Jane begin to sense that it's the bulls, not the cows, who have the greater problem, giving rise to her bovine theory of "why men flip-flop from passion to panic until they finally disappear." Just as the Cow device begins to wear thin and vengeful excess looms, Zigman reigns in her prickly impulses and serves up an ending that feels cathartic and true...
Holm responds to this challenge with a solid, subtle performance. His challenge is to portray grief without obvious emotional excess. Holm, the actor best known for his supporting role in Chariots of Fire, seems resigned and defeated. His gravelly voice shows that he is a man defeated by life, merely performing his job out of custom. He only rises from his dejection when forced to show anger, the only emotion that he has left...
...early scenes gives way to a more complex dichotomy between suicide and self-preservation. Over-all, Titanic is a pyrrhic victory for James Cameron. But even if the film does not achieve its grand ambitions, a gem of a movie is still to be found within all of the excess...