First, will the presence of the international observers, invited by Mr Mugabe to maintain the illusion of fairness, prevent excessive ballot-stuffing?
Mr. Doyel's home décor — the fireplace mantel chockablock with figurines, the dining-room table covered with cheap windup toys — could be viewed as an art installation about the excessive availability of stuff, a phenomenon never more apparent than at Christmas, when that stuff explodes in force, in the form of forgettable stocking fillers and candy containers, so much of it plastic.
There is a clear difference between compulsive hoarders and people who simply have an excessive amount of stuff, Professor Frost said.
"So not excessively excessive.
A palatial room with excessive chandeliers was stuffed to the brim with champagne swilling revelers.
Yet the threat posed by phosphorus scarcity contrasts sharply with the current environmental problems created by excessive amounts of the stuff in many places.
A combination of over-criminalisation, mandatory-minimum sentences, tough drug laws and excessive prosecutorial power have stuffed America's prisons to bursting.
Studying the resulting hotch-potch makes Castle Howard more interesting than the standard stately home, although its interior is the usual vaguely classical tomb stuffed with excessive amounts of loot.
In contrast, liberal commentator Jonathan Chait opined in New York that "What passes for a right-wing movie these days is The Dark Knight Rises, which submits the rather modest premise that, irritating though the rich may be, actually killing them and taking all their stuff might be excessive".
