You have never seen such excess!" Her business partner, Gail Goldey, nodded agreement.
In "Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess," her frank and funny new memoir of her life and loves and the decades she spent as New York magazine's restaurant critic, she explains her approach to that early fiction: "I used all the senses, all the sensory words I used to describe food — the taste and smell of it, the sound and heat".
One teacher in the pool, Christine Gross, was the union chapter leader for eight years at Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School in the South Bronx but was "excessed" — her position was eliminated — by her principal after she received four unsatisfactory ratings in a row.
Her excesses, her going on about revolution a bit too much, were shrugged off as the zeal of a recent convert, but they didn't go without notice.
Her fans may forgive her excesses, but her shareholders and Wall Street are far less charmed.
Instead, it joyfully wallows in the backdraft of her excesses, trailing her as she visits a network to pitch a talk show in which she would chat with teenagers, aided by puppets, and shows off her collection of dolls, all of which feature round cheeks and frozen smiles frighteningly similar to her own.
He also aroused her appetite for excess; describes her extravagent ways––expensive jewels, exotic animals, etc. Claims her signature perversities weren't original; mentions Princess di Belgiojoso, who pioneered macabre makeup and hair, and Rachilde, who adopted two sewer rats.
In the 1970s Ms. Benglis was constantly out there on her own, stopping traffic and irritating people with her innate sense of personal flamboyance, her penchant for formal excess and her calculated manipulations of art-world standards, the most extreme instance of which was of course the Artforum ad.
Jennifer Livingston, a news anchor in Wisconsin, went on the air to publicly scold a viewer who wrote her an e-mail suggesting that her excess weight made her a poor role model, and she became a cause célèbre.
She had fully comprehensive insurance and although this was not her fault she still had to pay her excess to get her car repaired.
She believes a lack of material excess in her childhood, paradoxically, left her more secure.
