Word: overblown
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Inside the leather turns out to be a fashion section, the Nazis, a short overblown piece of nonfiction on a woman Nazi hunter, and the bestiality a three-page pictorial of animals copulating. The last is the only thing in the magazine that shows any sign of originality. Subtitled "Our Friends in the Animal Kingdom Finally Get It On," the pictorial is actually funny. But in the context of the rest of Our it reads like self-parody. There are pictures of walfuses, rhinos, zebras, tortoises and hippopatomuses getting laid. It looks more like a selection from Mad magazine than...
...cheated consumers. Recently a promoter came into the state promising big earnings to people who bought distributorships for Mini Meal candy bars, which he claimed were developed for astronauts. Section investigators wangled an invitation to a closed sales presentation and decided that the earnings claims were wildly overblown. Chenoweth persuaded the promoter to get out of the state. Now she aims to get the legislature to approve a bill that would require all auto-repair firms and car dealers to be licensed, so that if a firm were proved to be cheating, the state could put it out of business...
However carefully coached, the youths responded with an enthusiasm that seemed contagious. Their shouts of "We want Pat" kept a pleased Pat Nixon from acknowledging an overblown James Stewart-narrated tribute for twelve minutes. They repeatedly interrupted Barry Goldwater and waved such age-bridging signs as RON BABY, WE LOVE YOU at Ronald Reagan. They released even more of their lung power every time their unlikely hero, Richard Nixon, appeared in public. "Nixon now, more than ever! Nixon now, more than ever!" went...
...Schuman breezed in as an utterly outrageous Madame Chouilloux. In a brief appearance she sustained a totally incredible pose, and had she spent any great amount of time on stage her manner would quickly have become overbearing. But for the moment it was appropriate. Joe Timko diametrically opposed her overblown entrance with his own underplayed behavior in the role of Truchet, her lover and "cousin...
...does not quite happen that way in real life, of course. Even in Wallace's overblown novel, the "Gospel According to James" turns out to be a possible forgery. But just as the source of the Nile was an irresistible magnet for 19th century explorers, the sources of the four Gospels that relate the life of Jesus remain irresistible lures to 20th century biblical scholars, and every so often some patient scriptural sleuth turns up another important piece of evidence. Recently, a Roman Catholic scholar arrived at a finding that could turn out to be this century...