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...overblown show of a popular American eye fooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: An overblown look at work that exemplifies the delights -- and limits -- of skillful realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reliable Bag of Tricks | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

With his flair for extravaganza and overblown productions, he would have revelled in Harvard's 14-2 destruction of Boston University here at Fenway park in the consolation round of the c Beanpot Tournament...

Author: By Justin R. P. ingersoll, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batsmen Maul Terriers, 14-2 | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

After 22 months of shilly-shallying, partisan bickering and overblown rhetoric, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics finally punished the last of the Keating Five. Last week the committee reprimanded California Democrat Alan Cranston, who accepted $850,000 in contributions from financier Charles Keating while interceding on his behalf with bank regulators who were trying to seize Keating's failing savings and loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: The Keating None | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...effect of California's problems, which is all the more damaging because of the high hopes the state has always harbored. "There's a deep disenchantment that I've decided goes a lot beyond traffic, smog, crime and too many neighbors," says Morgan. "There's a dejection born of overblown dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endangered Dream | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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