Word: overblown
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...managing editor of the New Republic and joined TIME in 1988. As deputy bureau chief, she helps decide which events we should cover. This week's NATION story on the abuse of congressional privileges is one example. Some members of Congress have been grumbling that the episode is being overblown. Not so, insists Carlson. "It says something important about the cocoon of privilege that members of Congress live...
...Modernism was not only a vehicle for political protest or idealist reverie. It also became, for the first time, chic: it entered the salons and diffused through the decorative arts, especially in France. And it turned pompier, as in the morbid and overblown paintings of society artist Tamara de Lempicka. The birth of Art Deco is one of the themes of this show -- designers' homages to larger avant-garde ideas: a Cubist table lamp, for instance, or "skyscraper" furniture...
...optimism is overblown. The cordon of communist-run industrial towns around Paris has frayed over the past decade as the country, ever more prosperous, moves rightward. In the 1988 presidential election, the Communist Party polled only 6.8%. Nonetheless, even as Soviet totalitarianism self- destructs, President Francois Mitterrand's minority Socialist government depends on 26 Communist deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture...
...everyone is happy about his execution. Peggy Charren, founder and president of Action for Children's Television in Cambridge, Mass., says the issue has been overblown in the press and criticizes CBS's rush to judgment: "It begins to smack of McCarthyism, where people were being pulled off the air before they were convicted of anything." Perhaps the real crime, the one , for which Reubens has been so relentlessly pilloried, was the successful pretense of childishness. The kids always knew he was playing, but, evidently, not many adults did. Ordinary show-business thugs and malefactors can get away with...
...still believe that the PC issue has been overblown, that it represents to some extent a conservative backlash against universities, that a limited number of incidents has been repeated over and over again," Bok continues...