Word: excessive
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...Come Down On Me,” the album’s best track and almost a stand-out anthem, perhaps does the best job of this, perfectly capturing the Reagan years’ excess, pride, and belief in the future through a constantly moving synth line with periodic booms from lower registers...
...center, Melinda can boast a charismatic actress. Mitchell has often been cast as the excess-baggage wife (Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Finding Neverland). Here, channeling the neuroses of all preceding Allen heroines, she exudes a hurt and danger, an intensely sexual intelligence that plays off her patrician beauty. In her care, Melinda is part comic, part tragic, all magic. --By Richard Corliss
...world of low inflation and low nominal interest rates. Mergers and acquisitions should boom this year, providing windfalls for the shareholders of takeover targets. I would expect corporate share buybacks to accelerate and dividend growth to remain strong. High returns on equity and low nominal growth mean lots of excess cash available for shareholders' benefit...
Instead, U.S. "overconsumption" saved the day, providing demand for the world's goods and keeping emerging economies from imploding due to their own domestic consumption collapse, high debt, and excess production capacity. Our consumption was fueled first by a strong domestic stock market, and when that gave way, by falling interest rates and ample liquidity supplied by the Fed. Still, we suffered a brutal bear market and a recession before things began to improve in early...
...skill at reproducing luxury looks at affordable prices is driving designers to new extravagance in their ready-to-wear collections. At the shows in Milan and Paris over the past two weeks, even the most jaded front-row fashionistas leaned forward for a closer look at the swathes of excess. On Chanel's runway, there were tweeds that on closer inspection proved to be feather-light embroidery on tulle; at Dior, loose inspiration from The Aviator resulted in a flight jacket in ruby-red mink trimmed with crocodile, and a trench coat mixing the exotic materials. "Will we sell...