Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeleton of the original is still recognizable in Prascak's version. The plot is basically the same: Peerless Gynt, a young dreamer-adventurer, spends his life in restless self-imposed exile from his one true love, the everpure Solveig. During his travels, a plethora of temptresses, trolls, lunatics, and other fanciful creatures test his wits, his consciousness, and his sense of identity...
...about the time Rask succumbed, Shilts began interviewing physicians about the health implications of the gay sexual revolution. Often, in private, they noted the spread of various venereal and gastrointestinal diseases and worried about what would happen if a new disease appeared. Dr. Dan William of Manhattan warned, "The plethora of opportunities poses a public health ( problem that's growing with every new bath in town." That was in 1980, just a year before the doctors learned their worst fears had come true...
...famed Silicon Valley suddenly felt more like Death Valley to some of its denizens. The problem: most Americans felt no need to spend hundreds of dollars to install computers in their homes, and chief executives of FORTUNE 500 companies began insisting that underlings make better use of the plethora of machines they had already purchased. "They bought too much and ended up with indigestion," explains Esther Dyson, an industry consultant. "Now they've digested lunch and are getting ready for supper...
...Samuel Morse's The Gallery of the Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that the supply of Childe Hassams and the like is running...
...Richard Salant. The Supreme Court upheld the fairness doctrine in 1969, citing the scarcity of broadcast outlets and the need to enhance the expression of diverse opinions, but opponents argue that the situation has changed since then. With some 12,000 radio stations, 1,110 TV stations and a plethora of new cable outlets, the scarcity shoe is on the other foot. A typical large city now has dozens of radio and TV outlets but usually just one or two daily newspapers...