Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creativity appears to be limitless, and Fragile is a superb statement of their musical ideas. Hopefully the album will become influential and give rock an important new direction...
...haves against the have-nots or the have-not-enoughs. The conflict was softened by the belief in permanent American prosperity and submerged by the global traumas of the past three decades. Now that the U.S. is looking inward once again, and learning that its wealth is not limitless, populism is undergoing a revival...
...cables, their proliferating vaults and huge iron grilles: one imagines Piranesi, gripped by some mastering paranoia, trying to stabilize it and give it a "real" form. In the 18th century, opium was the usual medicine for fever, and perhaps the Carceri were inspired by it; certainly their feeling of limitless dread, of imprisonment by infinite space, pertains to opium experience. Hence Piranesi's interest for some 19th century writers who, like Coleridge and Baudelaire, were opium addicts. "With the same power of endless growth and reproduction," wrote Thomas de Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium Eater...
...even Donizetti took the story very seriously. He doused it in music that falls considerably short of such masterpieces as Lucia di Larn-mermoor and L'Elisir a" A more, often seeming to be merely a chain of inconclusive finales. Before the ultimate one, though, there are limitless opportunities for the prima donna to cut up and rattle off fioriture...
...targets for class actions seem to be almost limitless. Current suits are challenging hamburger labeling practices, allegedly usurious credit-card finance charges and preferential air fares for youths. Last week seven Attica prisoners got a U.S. court of appeals to order an end to the maltreatment of all the prison's inmates by guards. Using unusually strong language, the court found that the cruelty described in prisoners' testimony "far exceeded what our society will tolerate on the part of officers...