Word: maximalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Second Coming. Genuine Christians disappear to heaven. Everyone else is abandoned to suffer a terrible earthquake, wars and the whims of the Antichrist, a.k.a. U.N. Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia of Romania. Collectively the books have sold more than 3 million copies. LaHaye also offers maximalist warnings about Y2K. It "very well could trigger a financial meltdown," he warned recently in an online- chat event, "leading to an international depression, which would make it possible for the Antichrist or his emissaries to establish a one-world currency or a one-world economic system, which will dominate the world commercially until...
Wallace juggles all this and more with dizzying complexity. You can sign on for the long haul or wait for some post-Pynchon academic to parse it out. Or you can just wade in, enjoy Wallace's maximalist style and hope that unlike the fatal film, Infinite Jest, the novel won't ... ARRRRRRGH...
...Egghead style that should set older folk aback and college kids abuzz." Set in a not-so-distant future where New England has been declared a toxic waste dump, the novel is a sprawling examination of annihilating diversions in an age of addictive entertainment. "'Infinite Jest' hurls its maximalist bulk, flamboyant style and unbuttoned erudition at all that might be considered fashionable posturing. Cool, it tells us in more ways than we may want to hear, is a social disease...
...disputes that many of the solutions of the past have done little to solve them. But if we leap into Newt Gingrich's Conservative Opportunity Society, will we, collectively, be better off? Conservatives of various stripes and hues have opposed activist, progressive government for generations. Indeed, the minimalist and maximalist approaches even divided the Founding Fathers. Will less government, as envisioned by Gingrich, then mean more prosperity and well-being for all Americans...
...drama is one actor on a bare stage, emoting. Perhaps not surprisingly in a century devoted to minimalism in every area of the arts -- and lately to downsizing in every area of commerce -- producers and performers are increasingly taking that definition literally. Broadway box office is dominated by maximalist musicals known to cynics as the helicopter show (Miss Saigon), the chandelier show (The Phantom of the Opera), the barricades show (Les Miserables) and the zoo story (Cats). But occasionally on Broadway, and incessantly off it, this is also a heyday of the one-person show...