Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tokyo was concerned, Sony America president Michael P. Schulhof had come to personify a chaos and excess that threatened to drag the company down. A protege of Morita's and Ohga's, Schulhof was a 20-year Sony veteran, a physicist who in his early years as Sony America chief had been competent enough in overseeing its lucrative electronics and music businesses. The company's disastrous foray into Hollywood, however, "changed Mickey," as one Tokyo-based Sony director puts it. Schulhof's lavish spending to remodel Sony's Madison Avenue headquarters had already drawn grumbles in Tokyo. The studio...
Danes, meanwhile, is inconceivably wrapped up in the film's mock-seriousness. At one point after Daisy's mother tells her to get rid of all her excess books, she shrieks, "But mom, books are life!" The remark, like many other such lines, invariably provokes laughter. No matter how much expression Danes infuses into each of her inane sentences, her efforts to add complexity to Daisy's underwritten character are hopeless and inescapably pathetic...
...predominant example of an unhealthy attitude toward drinking occurs with students in final clubs--comparable to the M.I.T. students who join or visit fraternities. The spirit of irresponsible excess and macho bravado that seems flow through these clubs and societies promotes a culture competition in which the ability to down shots, guzzle beer and do keg stands is a proper measure of one's abilities...
...East, such as Buddhism [RELIGION, Oct. 13], beckoned. But here in the West, those religions are artificially implanted in a society that is spiritually lost. The followers are ready to be led like sheep into any corner of the religious corral--be it to mass suicide, sexual excess or even murder. Eastern religions are Eastern in their mentality, and Buddhism in America will go the way of other fads. ROMAN STASTNY London...
...father, while not playing the childish role of her cousin, proved to be responsible to the point of excess...