Word: overblown
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...approaches. Perhaps, since this was the first nationally televised encounter featuring a woman office-seeker, the exchange actually was as telling as the networks would have us believe. But we suspect that in England, for instance, where upheavals such as the Watergate crisis are viewed as periodic outbreaks of overblown national hysteria, viewers were shaking their heads and asking: Will Americans ever grow...
...offered by veteran New York Times cliche-hurler Robert Palmer. This picture-book, large-type text, liberally prepared with color and black-and-white photos of the Stones at their decadent best, suffers from the same '60s-envy that makes otherwise rational human beings mythologize the pompous and overblown Jim Morrison or believe that the Grateful Dead were ever more than a bunch of dope fiends who knew a few chord changes...
...issue of the Core itself, Rosovsky's optimism again appears somewhat overblown. Rosovsky draws confidence from the statistic that close to half the Core enrollments are electives but concedes that the full impact of Core requirements will not be known until the Class of '86 graduates. Needless to say, that judgement is of little comfort to undergraduates currently struggling to combine 10 Core offerings with concentration requirements...
...that Reagan's popularity comes from a Teflon magic refuse to acknowledge his gains and exaggerate his failures. Mayors who feared that federal aid cuts would bankrupt their cities now run surpluses. The estimates by Reagan's critics that 3 million people are homeless proved to be overblown by tenfold. Such attacks diminish the true anguish of the needy and insult American intelligence...
...Others were not convinced. Afghan resistance spokesmen in Paris acknowledged that two attempts had been made upon the Lion's life, including one by an undercover agent who took aim from only 30 feet away. But they also insisted that rumors of Massoud's downfall were as overblown as those put about by Kabul two years ago. "There are no casualty figures, no reports of capture of arms and no description of clashes," said a Mujahedin official in New Delhi. "That makes me very doubtful of the claims...