Word: excessives
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...coolness used in the U.S., and precious little of that in private dwellings. Here, so profligate has its use become that the air conditioner is almost as glaring a symptom as the automobile of the national tendency to overindulge in every technical possibility, to use every convenience to such excess that the country looks downright coddled...
...Dream. As Alexis de Tocqueville clairvoyantly saw in 1835, the dream always contained a dark possibility that it might eventually degenerate, in its fulfillment, into a sorry and anxiously sweating materialism, the American elect unsatisfied, wanting more and more, turning the land of plenty into the land of wretched excess...
...deeper and longer than the mild slowdown of six to nine months that the Administration has so far forecast. Miller's projections: unemployment rising from last month's 5.6% to 8.3% of the labor force next year, inflation continuing to roar at a double-digit pace in excess of 10% at least through...
...reason Dracula remains forever undead is that no amount of cinematic miscalculation can entirely loosen his grip on our imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the stage, Langella shows himself capable of playing it straight and slightly melancholic. Kate Nelligan, as Lucy, the young woman who enthralls him and is herself enthralled, is superbly spirited. In the film's early scenes, she plays the part as a liberated lady, turn-of-the-century variety. Once Dracula...
...because they provide a rare, undisturbed record of reversals in the earth's magnetic field. Such fluctuations can influence climate, and possibly allow more cosmic radiation to assail the earth's atmosphere. One layer, only a centimeter thick and tracing back 65 million years, showed a sharp excess of iridium, an element 1,000 times more plentiful in otherworldly matter than in the earth's crust. The "spike" in the readings made a sobering point. "It's the first experimental evidence that something quite extraordinary happened then," says Physics Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez, who gave...