Word: overblown
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...economy's expansion. Reporters turned to White House Press Secretary Jody Powell. Was the President correct in saying that he and Burns never disagreed? "That is wrong," said Powell. "There are differences." The Washington Post quoted Powell as stating that Carter's kind words for Burns were "overblown" and an "overreaction" to accounts of a policy feud between them...
...Sansone and O'Bryant is clearly something of a bonanza for Boston, the referenda defeats and Flynn notwithstanding. And with moderate Councilor James Michael Connolly and School Committee President Kathleen Sullivan topping their tickets, there seems to be a significant improvement. The importance of these results, however, has been overblown. There has been no major change in Boston, only a reaffirmation of the lackluster. Sullivan and Connolly are responsible for no major innovations or progressive actions. They are young, educated, ambitious people who know better than to walk along Broadway Avenue in Southie and scream nigger...
...Continental. Not to be outdone, the rival Sun-Times tried to make something of the fact that John Moore, who helped the Carter Administration vet potential appointees, including Lance, for possible conflicts of interest, happened to be a law partner of Lance's own lawyer. Powell called that overblown accusation "a real low point in the coverage...
Midnight blatantly caters to tabloid feminine fantasies. Given a strong narrative surge and one or two vigorously hammy performances, it might have been good, trashy fun-a throwback to the overblown women's melodramas of two or three decades ago. But the film lacks the courage of its own vulgarity...
...drug counter and carcinogens in every can of deodorant--have promised unrealistic benefits from a proposal that would, in reality, be an imperfect solution to the problem of adequately representing the interest of the consumer in the government proceedings. The unfortunate result has been that when critics discredit the overblown claims of the Naderites, they seem also to have discredited the entire notion of creating an institutional advocate of consumer viewpoints...