Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proliferating number of software titles means that it is harder to strike it rich quickly. Says Ron Fisher, vice president of VisiCorp in San Jose, Calif.: "There is now a surfeit of good people with good programs." Independent programmers once received royalties as high as 37% of the wholesale price, but their commissions have slid to an average of about 10%. Concurs Gibbons of Software Publishing: "The days of giant royalty payments are gone for good...
...Three II, the printed surface gets jammed to overload with baroque writhings: it is as though the space left between the wriggling planes of his relief paintings had been crushed down into two dimensions, flattened like a can on the road. Such prints take disorder to the edge of surfeit, the more so because they are so big-5½ ft. by 4 ft. of handmade paper. They have the size and power of painting, and much of its coloristic resonance...
...advantages are considerable. The 1.1 million-sq.-ft. colossus is not, to be sure, the kind of building to wrap your heart around. The surfeit of white Vermont marble is a bit intimidating. Yet the building fits politely between the clumsily classical Everett Dirksen Senate Office Building and the Federal and Queen Anne-style Sewall-Belmont House and garden, headquarters of the venerable National Woman's Party. The Hart Building's classically well-ordered, box-construction windows, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleils, or sun screens, harmonize with the forest of Roman columns that flourishes...
...dimensionality and reduced to human levels, and the landscape have been deflated from three-dimensional grandeur into a series of all-too-familiar picture postcard images. Although this decline developed from the wariness with which we now approach our national myths, it is, more noticeably, the result of simple surfeit in what is after all a somewhat limited genre...
...collection, belongs on any short list of great 20th century stories. Its narrator is an excruciatingly proper and longwinded sort who turns a day's worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being the bearer of a fat stomach." His adventures are many, but nightfall brings them to an end: "As I looked at earth and air and sky the melancholy...