Word: overblown
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...George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sitting in a backyard treehouse playing with cheap green plastic army guys. “Hey George, let’s call this one infinite justice, ok? Infinity is coooool.” Try sloppy and overblown...
...talent competition, Smith—clad in a sparkling black gown—sang “I Whistle a Happy Tune” from the Academy-Award winning musical The King and I, amusing the audience with a short tap dance and her overblown attempts to whistle...
...Brit awards - the U.K. music industry's showcase bash - have been making headlines since they were launched in 1977. But usually those headlines are less about the music being celebrated than the musicians' booze-fueled antics. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker invading the stage to waggle his bottom during an overblown Michael Jackson performance in 1996 remains a memorable hit. So does Chumbawamba drenching Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in water in '98. But this week's ceremony is meant to be liquor-free, because the Brits are growing up - choosing from a more thoughtful list of nominations and promising...
...rights, China is self-interested like all nations and probably favors economic development over ruinous war. Unlike North Korea, there has been no indication that the leaders in Beijing are outright mad in their approach to diplomacy. Though espionage remains a serious issue, fear of Chinese nuclear aggression seems overblown...
...with an unimpressive ratio of hit productions. Boyd sees Midnight's Children as exactly the sort of show to put the RSC back on track. It may not be Shakespeare, he says, but "Rushdie is in the highly theatrical Shakespearean tradition. You can say they're both overblown, or you can see that they supersede the prosaic limitations of naturalism. That's the sort of new work we should be doing." Boyd plans to introduce a regular summer festival of new work to run alongside productions of Shakespeare. "And we're looking for modern classics exactly like Midnight's Children...