Word: overblown
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...scoring points with the voters, as he crisscrossed the country and hit hard at Ford at every stop. In his attacks, Carter was so aggressive that it was possible he would provoke a sympathetic backlash for Ford?if the allegations about him were shown to be untrue or grossly overblown. But for the moment, the President gave the Democrats plenty to criticize...
After reading the Crimson on and off for the past two years while a student at Harvard Law School, I drew to the conclusion that The Crimson's esteemed reputation was overblown. I found a good deal of your reporting inadequate, your choice of stories and the play of these stories too oriented to politics and an absymal lack of attention to the real story at Harvard--people...
That was precisely the point. By autumn, buyers hope, the basic new Saint Laurent silhouette will begin to render obsolete the soft unstructured dresses and tailored pantsuits of the early '70s. The raves and somewhat overblown reporting of the collection by Women's Wear Daily and the New York Times reflected the yearning of the hard-pressed U.S. fashion industry for a replay of the late Christian Dior's New Look, the style that so profitably transfigured women and their wardrobes...
...overexaggerated fear; in the end, most ethnics will probably stay in the Democratic fold. Predicted Sal Venezia, a city official in Catholic East Boston: "We've had enough of Republicans, regardless of who the Democratic nominee is." Added Joseph Mayer, a Philadelphia plumber: "This Southern Baptist thing is overblown. Some of my best customers are Baptists." But Carter is taking no chances. He plans to take steps to smooth over relations with the church hierarchy and hopes to improve his showing among urban Catholics and ethnics by stressing issues that concern them, such as unemployment and health care...
...hopes for education were overblown, he asks, does this "require us to abandon the effort to carry out the educational mandate of a democratic society, or does it require a democratic society to undertake economic and social as well as educational reforms to facilitate carrying out that mandate?" In short: one social program has failed, so let's turn to another...