Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every time he eats, his bloodstream is flooded with fatty particles called chylomicrons, which transport triglycerides and cholesterol out of the intestines to the rest of | his body. Soon Fred's liver is busy mopping up chylomicrons and is unable to cope with excess LDL in the blood. The surfeit of cholesterol particles then begins circulating freely through the body. Unless it is stopped, it can lead to the formation of deadly plaque...
...same kind of firm resolve will be needed in his Cabinet job, in which he will have a surfeit of needs but very little money. Bush's campaign goals include more funds for Head Start and $500 million for "merit schools" -- dollars that will be hard to find, given the pressures of the budget deficit. Balancing books may be difficult, but getting students to read them is Cavazos' main concern. "We've heard a lot about budget and trade deficits," he says. "We've got one that's equally dangerous -- the education deficit...
...glimpse into the Seoul Games. But in the Olympic metropolis itself, some spectators seem to be missing. The evidence: as the Games began, more than a third of the 4 million tickets to Olympic events remained unsold, and hotel occupancy was running 20% below maximum. One reason for the surfeit of tickets is a lack of excitement among Koreans for the myriad preliminaries in some sports (soccer, for example) as well as for some entire events (fencing and the modern pentathlon...
...good Lord must love the nouveaux riches, because he made so many of them. He also seems to have provided a surfeit of writers to turn their freshly gilded lives into trashy novels. Among recent scribes who specialize in pressing readers' noses against the glass that separates them from the best of everything is Dominick Dunne (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles). His latest is sodden with the sort of unimaginative stock characters that have tumbled out of all the rich-and-famous pseudo fiction of the 1980s. The setting is Manhattan's Upper East Side, the pricey arena where old-moneyed...
...literal a gift from the gods to him as Valhalla had been to Wagner. Gauguin was no anthropologist but a romantic looking for pity and terror among the vestiges of a lost Golden Age. Certainly his flight to the Marquesas was inspired by a wide reaction against Western cultural surfeit, against an industrial France fixated on money and "development." But the life he forged from his discontents, though not without moments of bathos, was deeply courageous. He tried what others in the Paris cafes only talked about...