Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bucolic sculpture park, where modern form becomes the temptation of a jungle gym. Sadly, while "interaction" is encouraged, climbing is forbidden. The museum itself exhibits modern and contemporary American art, mostly by New England artists. The aim and presentation of the DeCordova is didactic, which results in an irritating excess of wall-text. Recent figurative painting is the perennial favorite here...
...both personally felt and generally interesting in what it says about the way people look at giants. Size (which matters) is an accident of biology, but we tend to treat it as an implicit assault on the averageness of the rest of us--a potential menace, an insulting excess--and there is a universal desire to see the big man fall...
...costs were quite substantial and far in excess, from a corporate perspective, of any benefit that the institution could derive," says Thomas S. McGurty, vice president for finance and treasurer at Tufts. "I think many people, quite frankly, were using [the payment option] to realize frequent flier miles. It just didn't make economic sense for the institution as a whole...
...mutual fund managers gone, the room has returned to its rightful owners. An abandoned martini sits on the fireplace mantle, the olive within more closely resembling a preserved biology specimen than a cocktail. A fire blazes beneath the mantle; the air conditioner whirs in the corner. The charmed excess that once defined much of life at Harvard still finds a home in the Upstairs Bar, and the Kroksonow Asian, Jewish, middle-classosop up a little of the nectar that once fed them. They still cultivate a suave, Holyoke Street image: one part Andover Shop (where they frequently buy their neckwear...
...colon cancer was thought to be a disease of uncontrolled growth. Nichols' scientists suspected instead that the problem was uncontrolled death. Cells lining the intestines usually live only 72 hours. But while cells are born at the usual rate in FAP patients, some fail to self-destruct, producing an excess. Johns Hopkins' Giardiello eventually showed that drugs like sulindac work by restoring the natural process of cell death in the colon. Precisely how it does that, however, remains unknown...