Word: overblown
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...Fantagraphic's "Blab #12" in October. "D&Q" includes classic reprints like early "Gasoline Alley" strips by Frank King, along with European and American artists. The "Blab" franchise leans on the less-comix, more graphic-arts side, with a greater avant-garde quotient. Frankly they both can feel overblown, but hi-end showcases like these need to exist...
...were different. We were cooler. We were better. Those of us who were alternative-rock fans in the '80s would tell you we listened to the music because we cared about songwriting and authenticity, were turned off by the staleness of overblown arena rock--true enough, but let's fess up. When you bought a Housemartins single or a Husker Du album in the '80s, you bought entry into a club. Our music was hard to find: you had to know the right radio stations, the right clubs, the right record stores. It did not make Casey Kasem's countdown...
Diva means goddess. All right, the word is as goofily overblown for a female vocal star as "artist" is for any punk with a record contract. But as a job description, "diva" carries certain burdens. One must not only sing one's heart out; one must expose it to the harshest elements. What becomes a legend most? Suffering. A childhood of deprivation; liaisons with powerful, possibly dangerous men; career triumph soured by personal despair. A life of melodrama makes the diva more human, thus more godlike, to her fans. A catchy moniker helps: Callas...Garland...Lady Day...Whitney. The singer...
Microsoft insists that the complaints about Passport are overblown. The only information it collects from Starbucks buyers, it says, are e-mail address, city and state, and it promises not to turn that data over to third parties. Microsoft insists it never asked Starbucks.com to make it an exclusive payment option. "It's totally at the discretion of the participants to decide what makes most sense for their business," says Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn...
...generally agreed by those close to the band that a lot of what U2 did during the later 1990s was misunderstood. The band's cynicism was overblown by reviewers and audiences, they say, who may have missed the fact that U2 was tackling the same issues they had dealt with for years. They just approached the questions from a new angle...