Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday evening began with Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, a liquid-sounding piece that flows in one continuous sweep. Wolff's interpretation evoked a number of mesmerizing images. However, the performance did not swell and gradually overflow in its fullness from one section to the next, but rather began de novo each time new instruments were signalled to play...
...Tran Van Tuyen, leader of the 27-man opposition bloc in the lower house, which is also dominated by Thieu favorites. "There have always been charges of corruption," said Tuyen, "but the open charges [of the priests] were just the last drop of water that makes the full glass overflow. President Thieu just has to make an answer...
Canaday has alleviated the housing problem, but it cannot solve it. The overflow that still exists seems to have been distributed more evenly among the various Houses this year, and House secretaries have been gaining skill in juggling extra bodies, but the fact remains that there are too many people and too few rooms...
When students returned to school last fall, many of them were greeted with a surprise--additional roommates. Overcrowding in the Houses reached crisis proportions, with six Houses forced to accommodate between five and ten per cent overflow...
...tried to order the disorder of his marriage lies, in reams of rejected drafts and re-drafts, in several cardboard cartons. On them the writer has pasted a quotation from Flaubert, speaking of how art can become "an outlet for passion, a kind of chamberpot to catch an overflow. It smells bad; it smells of hate." So, however, does Roth's book, despite all the cool distance of formal self-consciousness: it is impossible to read a book which treats a writer's life with such sordid particularity and not find oneself automatically extending the sordidness to the real writer...