Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever one building in an architect's career made amends for another, it is this. Imagine something akin to the Frick Museum, but with fewer masterpieces and devoted to the juncture between modernism and the archaic, a place where disinterested aesthetic experience can be enjoyed without coercion or surfeit. One would then have the Menil...
Unfortunately, The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul's new autobiographical novel, suffers from a surfeit of description and fantasy, leaving one bored instead of touched by its detailed portrait of the English countryside in decay...
...harvest begins, the twin plagues of drought and overabundance have dealt yet another blow to America's stricken farmers. In the following pages, TIME's Hugh Sidey looks at the ravaged Southeast and the surfeit in his native Midwest; a moving letter from a North Carolina farmwife reveals the personal anguish of a lifetime of work that ends in bankruptcy; and a worldwide assessment of the farm dilemma shows why it is proving so intractable...
...breaks. For hours, radio and television repeat what they know ("for those who tuned in late") and raise unanswered questions about the rest; they are joined later by newspapers and magazines. They are all doing their competitive best, and much is quickly learned by the newsgatherers, but oh, the surfeit of words...
AMERICA REMEMBERS the 1950s fondly: the decade which featured slick hairstyles, doo-wop rock, and an incredible surfeit of guy-meets-girl romances that captured the imaginations of Americans like no other. Winthrop House's production of Grease plays on our idealization of '50s in such a way, both affectionate and mocking, that makes it the most entertaining sock-hop this weekend...