Word: overblown
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THINGS BRIGHTEN CONSIDERABLY, but not enough to compensate, in the third play, The Lady or the Tiger by cartoonist Shel Silverstein. This is a neat sketch about a murderously overblown T.V. game show that climaxes in the Astrodome with the contestant, dressed as a gladiator, getting either the girl of his dreams and $12 million or a man-eating tiger ("flown in by Air India") and certain death. It's set in the office of the brash young producer, who faces, in turn, a huge black tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when...
...frightening econometric models receiving a lot of press are too general to apply to Harvard; his goal is to bring what he considers more relevant data to Harvard's potential benefactors. "I think we have to say to them that they may have gotten an idea that is drastically overblown and by inference transferred that to the Harvard Campaign. Somehow," he adds, "we have to carry the results of our study to our alumni...
...economic program on one major condition: that the Federal Government give them general-purpose block grants rather than money ear marked by Congress for specific uses. These block grants were to be the cornerstone of Reagan's "quiet federalist revolution," in which power would gradually be transferred from overblown federal agencies to state and local authorities. Given greater leeway and less red tape in using federal funds, the Governors were confident that the states could absorb cut backs of 10% without trimming services...
Last week the Administration officially admitted that its optimism about interest rates has so far been wildly overblown. The backpedaling, which came as part of the Administration's midyear economic review, raises some doubt as to whether rates will decline very much this year...
...same intensity that characterized the University's perception of national and world events pervaded its reactions to what was happening on campus. Some of the controversies seem particularly parochial and overblown, in retrospect; it is already becoming difficult to understand or even to remember, for example, the intense ire provoked by new restrictions on the placement of posters or the threat of a shuttle-bus driver strike. The developments in the Core Curriculum, difficult as they may have been to achieve, even now seem all but routine; and most people would be hard-pressed to recall the substance of heated...