Word: excessives
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Claude Chabrol defines absurdity as the gap between the awesome finality of death and the trivial reasons men adduce for killing or putting themselves in the way of being killed. To him, murder is the ultimate emotional excess, an enigma he has worried with a tough-minded, ironic and often subtle compassion in such recent films as This Man Must Die and Le Boucher. These movies are about the exorcizing of private demons. Never until The Nada Gang has Chabrol concerned himself with murder in its most absurd manifestation-as an act of public political protest...
...separate his family's wealth from the actual management of companies. "I have not followed the management of the companies I invest in. They are investments for investment, not for control." Though his family has heavy investments in oil stocks, he reminded the committee that he favors an excess profits tax on oil companies...
...with ex-wife Marianne at the end, she's embarrassed by the memories their old bed evokes. He snickeringly calls a friend to borrow his cottage for "a rather delicate matter--she's very pretty, let me tell you." Yet he thinks he's changed, grown away from his excess aspirations, learned when to lie and when to be candid with his lovers...
...notion that developed agricultural nations with excess production potential can buffer the hungry and increasingly populous nations through donations of food grains on an ever increasing scale has finite limitations. Already there is some evidence that the people of developed nations cannot indefinitely accept the progressively higher taxes and reduced living standards implicit in continuing large-scale and growing foreign...
...tear-tugging to read the poetry of the displaced Palestinian. Also very interesting was the consensus at Rabat that the Arabs are again one nation. Strange, is it not? The "Arab nation" has unity of religion, custom, language and heritage, with billions of excess dollars and millions of square miles of unused land, and the only place a Palestinian Arab can feel at home is in "the orange groves of Jaffa...