Word: overblown
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...camps: those who are behaving as if the crisis is genuine, and those who are not. Last week the shortage touched the lives of additional citizens, but there were many who were still not much affected, and quite a number who continued to suspect that the crisis is overblown or phony...
...organ is lit up like the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...
...since Sha Na Na burst upon the national rock-and-roll scene with its tour de force performance at Woodstock, I've been an infatuated follower of the group's fifties style and sound. In the wasteland of electric rock Sha Na Na provided a welcome retreat from the overblown basses and haranguing lead guitars that were pummelling listeners of contemporary rock music with monotonous uniformity. They captured me in that first performance, launching what has become an enduring and passionate romance...
While his indignation was understandable, Eban's rhetoric was overblown. The fact is that the Arab attack did not come as a surprise. Israeli intelligence reported having observed the Egyptians and Syrians reinforcing their border units...
Some industry insiders cautioned that the rumors, particularly about drugs, have been overblown. Others argued that Davis had been made a scapegoat. Still others contended that Davis was no favorite of New CBS President Arthur Taylor and was simply a foredoomed victim of a corporate squeeze...