Word: overblown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his Armstrong Ranch idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of sly unaccountability. But others insisted that the only misfire in the overblown affair was the press shooting itself in the foot...
...Instead, within days, the restaurant's landlord filed a lawsuit saying Del Posto had violated its lease during construction by building into unauthorized space and installing unapproved lights. The landlord has also claimed the restaurant lacked all its city permits. The spat seems a bit overblown-permitting delays?-but the New York Post reported last week that billionaire financier Henry Kravis, a Del Posto investor, is trying to negotiate a settlement with the landlord. For their part, Batali and Joseph Bastianich have told reporters they hope to be at their corner of 16th Street and Tenth Avenue for the duration...
...expresses a sadness absent from “Speak,” Lohan’s debut. Maybe Lindsay finally got the memo: she may not be an above-average singer, but she’s an actress with a pretty solid track record. That said, her overblown histrionics don’t quite work in stereo. “Personal” is, at its best, an overacted soundtrack to the sensationalized Lindsay Lohan story (featured in a tabloid near you). At its worst, it’s the whiny attempt of a self-proclaimed drama queen...
...rising to prominence once again on Manhattan’s Upper West Side? As strange as this sounds, the rhetoric surrounding a disturbing but overblown racially-charged vandalism incident at Columbia might lead one to think...
...student groups, especially in the face of the massive increase in social space that the completion of the Lamont Café and the Loker Pub will herald.As for Hilles itself, the furor raised by some student groups on Monday about the layout and amenities of the offices themselves was overblown. The plans for Hilles are still in a state of flux. On Monday, Dean McLoughlin presented plans for offices that had no doors, and whose walls were formed by Hilles’ teak bookshelves. Student groups were understandably concerned about the privacy of offices with no locking doors and bookshelf...