Word: overblown
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...squalls stirred by Russia's first real multiparty elections in 76 years may yet prove overblown. In reality, there were no decisive winners -- only losers. Of the eight parties that ran strongly enough in the 13-party free- for-all to secure seats in the Duma, none will enjoy anything near a majority. Zhirinovsky's misleadingly named Liberal Democratic Party stands to claim fewer than 80 seats in the 450-seat lower house of the new bicameral legislature, while reformers will occupy roughly twice that number. A preliminary count suggests that the lower house will be divided almost evenly among...
...honest, I thought the claims I heard of discrimination--at Harvard and elsewhere--were overblown. After all, this was the 90s, right? Institutional inequality at Harvard was long since over. Societal limits on what women could do had long since broken down. Hell, the president and the business manager of the supposedly "male-dominated" Crimson were both women. What...
...great country back to the ideals I held dear: humility, selflessness, obedience. I blamed the hostage crisis on Carter; I nearly wept when he lit the Statue of Liberty's torch on the Fourth of July; I called the news media a bunch of bleeding hearts for belaboring that overblown Iran-Contra thing. When other kids wore black armbands on their Underroos after Carter lost the presidency to Reagan, I danced in mine...
...That's overblown, sure, but the central idea of the offense is to keep the defense on its heels, not sure of where the ball will come from next...
...York City heat wave as Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D'Onofrio), a butcher, wins his wife in a pinochle game with her father. The father bets his daughter's hand; Joseph bets a cold blast of air from his meat locker. After a small protest, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman, the overblown British comedienne) marries him, becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something...