Guns N' Roses, by contrast, unabashedly celebrated excess.
Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age of voluntary self-restraint, or jishuku, the antipode of the Japan of the "bubble" era that celebrated excess.
Some of the greatest excesses come in the celebrated flashback scenes, which aim to take us inside Willy's mind as he recalls a time when Biff and Happy were still promising high-school students, his own career seemed to be going well, and life for the Loman family was generally quite nice.
The corporate-jet business has abandoned the defensive crouch it went into for years after the shareholder revulsion generated by the celebrated business excesses of the mid- to late 1980's, when legendary corporate Champagne Charlies like F. Ross Johnson of RJR Nabisco presided imperially over fleets of expensive jets that could be dispatched on a whim, say to fetch a pet.
The E3 boss encounter sequence had spectacle, definitely, but it all just seemed so much more sedate than what we've come to expect from this celebrated house of kinetic excess.
But while the likes of George Best and Stan Bowles generated thousands of column inches for both their skill and excess, many will argue it was this less celebrated player who typified an era far removed from today's bland professionalism.
I would like to note that whatever approach is used to investigate the acid-base status (the celebrated bicarbonate-centered approach, the base excess methodology or the physicochemical approach) most of the acid-base parameters have values within or slightly beyond the normal range [ 2, 3].
Some of the worst examples of excess in public office have emerged from Africa, perhaps the most celebrated example that of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the Central African Republic dictator who in 1977 crowned himself emperor in a ceremony costing $20m.
Undoubtedly Greece's most celebrated banker, Zombanakis blames the country's debt crisis mostly on banking excess: "They were over-lending, pushing money down peoples' throats.
