Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT TO DO Alcohol in excess is still bad for you but a glass of wine with dinner is probably fine for nonalcoholics...
...wanted to get that across." To bring back the chills, the group brought in veteran producer Don Was (a respected studio vet who has worked with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones) to help it capture the essence of the music, to strip away studio trickery and pop excess. The group has worked with outside producers before--Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the rock group Talking Heads produced its 1988 album, Conscious Party--but the result this time is the most focused and mature of the band's career...
...despite his ranking as one of the world's richest pop stars, the Versace-favoring singer is seeking a $40 million loan from a London bank. An article in the London Sunday Times last week claimed that John is already carrying debts with British and American banks in excess of $11 million; he is known to ring up as much as $400,000 a week in credit-card bills and is said to stock his British homes with 240 flower arrangements a week. He is also generous to charitable causes and is God's gift to the spectacle and sunglass...
This is not to say that excess is unavailable. Goodwood Travel in Canterbury, England, promises to "rekindle memories of the Imperial days of the Tsars" with a five-day, $5,520 trip from London to St. Petersburg capped by a New Year's Eve Millennium Tsar's Ball (19th century costumes not included) at the gilded Great Hall in the Pushkin Palace...
Note: If you know for a fact what you'll be doing 12 months from now, don't bother reading this. Parties are raging and goodbyes (to say nothing of bodily fluids) are being exchanged like lira for euros. We approve whole-heartedly of this Bacchanalian excess and hope that each of the next four days and nights prove wilder than the one before. Nonetheless, it's impossible to wade through all this raucous merriment without sensing tension when well-wishers turn sullen and mutter under their breath as arch-enemies pass by, or when two friends stand aloof because...