Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government was notoriously corrupt. Counterfeiting was rampant. Small businesses were ruined by rocketing inflation. Bribery of public officials was commonplace, and police kept dossiers on everyone. In the midst of the chaos, a dictator seized power and restored order. It was part of an all-too-real experiment in government by a seventh-grade class in California...
Local Philadelphia residents refer to the Schuykill River as the "Sure Kill" because of its rampant pollution and acid pH balance. The waterway did indeed mean death for the Pennsylvania and Navy heavyweight crews on Saturday, as Harvard's varsity, J.V. and freshmen murdered them by convincing margins of at least a length...
...driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade." Similarly in the story of Measure for Measure lechery runs rampant in Vienna. The Duke of the city pretends to leave, deputizing an icily moral Lord Angelo to govern in his place. The Duke hopes prostitution will be curbed this way. Angelo, true to form, immediately shuts the whorehouses, and condemns a man to death for fornication. But Claudio, the accused...
Anyone who thinks the theater of the absurd is extinct need only attend the Brooklyn Academy of Music's production of Julius Caesar to behold it rampant on a field of idiocy. Director Frank Dunlop's conception of the play is so aberrant, so devoid of all sense and meaning, that when it does not border on the ludicrous it achieves the inane...
Extensive improvisation by the pianist in any work invariably excites the audience and lets the soloist show off his virtuosity. Usually, rampant arpeggios and endless trills are well integrated into any piano piece and, in the case of a concerto, into the orchestral score. However, the pianist must also attempt to keep these improvisations in the context of the whole work rather than display them simply as a showpiece. Kogan succeeded in this regard Saturday in his performance of Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto. He handled the difficult solo parts of the work with consummate ease and sensitivity...