Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job--the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...
Students receive their first exposure to Harvard's fundraising network before they even get their diplomas. From the first year of college onward, the Parents Fund solicits all undergraduate parents for donations in excess of the approximately $25,000 they are already paying yearly...
Nutritionists say it really boils down to this: despite all the fuss about diet and fitness, Americans in the '80s ate too much and exercised too little. In thermodynamic terms, they took in more calories than they burned, and they stored the excess...
Food was money for mankind's first million years or so. When it is plentiful, the body -- for sound physiological reasons -- stores the excess away as fat, biology's own energy reserve. It's no accident that fat adds taste to food; evolution reinforces the body's urge to eat the things it needs to survive. In peasant villages, people instinctively gain weight in the summer and burn it off in the winter. Laboratory animals will eat Crisco right...
...says Natalie Tolbert, 26, to a friend who has just ordered chicken nuggets, waffle fries, a soft drink and a brownie from an Atlanta fast-food joint. "You're pleasantly plump." More and more Americans are couching their excess in euphemism these days, and they're not necessarily ashamed of it. "Obviously I don't care," says Tolbert, gesturing to her ample figure and equally ample lunch. "I don't care because I find most men I go out with like a woman with some meat on her body...