Word: excessives
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...Director Valerii has embellished a traditional western plain song with eccentric bursts of baroque invention. A disciple of Sergio Leone, inventor and master of the spaghetti western, Valerii has found a way to have fun with his form without indulging in parody or resorting to bloody excesses that have marred so many recent westerns. There is his handling of the Wild Bunch, which he converts into a men acing abstraction: a cloud of dust, a thunder of hoofs, an excess rendered so mysterious by distance that it is hard to know whether to laugh or be scared...
Being one of the best pitchers in baseball is not bad for a man whose age is ofiicially listed as 33 but could be 36, 37 or whatever. His success is even more remarkable for a pitcher who was floundering in the minor leagues only three years ago. Excess weight and a cracked shoulder blade had apparently ended Tiant's career after several solid years in the majors, including one 21 -victory season with the Cleveland Indians...
...admired him. Perhaps just as many hated him. He labored under the handicap of being mysterious without being fascinating. His supporters saw him as shrewd enough to win elections and capable enough to run an efficient centrist-conservative Administration that would save the country from radical or liberal excess. To his enemies, he was devious and dangerous, a man without principle, a hungry Cassius who sought power at any cost. However one felt about him, he became a seemingly permanent fixture in American politics, yet always somehow an outsider...
...time of the 1972 election the radical "threat" to American society, always exaggerated, had largely spent itself. But Nixon chose to run against the 1960s - against radicalism, excess, permissiveness - a strategy in which he was greatly aided by McGovern's ill-considered and irresponsible economic schemes, and by the vaguely "revolutionary" slogans put about by some of his wilder and woollier supporters...
...series of confrontations--between Alfred, who returns to his hometown after an absence of 15 years, and Margaret and Will, who have never left; between Alfred and Emily; between Margaret and Will; between Alfred and his past. The themes that unite the characters are sexual impotence and sexual excess, the barrenness of lives imprisoned by material wealth or poverty, the lies and failures of memory that hide fear and guilt...