Word: overladenness
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...Ideally, each grain of couscous should be distinct and fluffy, having been steamed and re-steamed over water (but never submerged) in a couscousière, a special implement designed for this purpose. I spied a couscousière in the kitchen, but our couscous was nearly soggy and overladen with vegetables. The specials change daily, and are hit-and-miss, but every lamb dish I’ve had has been wonderful, imbued with a slightly gamy flavor that is so often lacking in farm-raised meat...
...among others. The movie is grainy, mainly showing markets and minarets, the photos sharp, concentrated on war and refugees. Though separated by decades, and light years of technological advances, there is a sense of sameness in the images. Afghanistan appears as a dusty realm of bearded men in turbans, overladen donkeys, women hidden from view in the background, children with eyes that have seen too much. Fortunately, the rest of the exhibition helps to alleviate this dispiriting impression...
...ballsy style," as he called it--is of a thwarted, tumultuous, half-articulate imagination bashing against the limits of its own abilities. He produced dark, macabre paintings of murders and orgies whose motivation, despite the guignol of their subject matter, remains as mysterious as their muddy paint and overladen black tonalities...
...light notables such as Rembrandt Delacroix, Matrisse, Jasper John and Ahdy Warhol show their darker sides. And we get a disturbing perspective on some of our old favorites--Johns' signs ture stars and stripes become muddied, and Warhol's shiny look at Campbell's soup becomes squished and overladen with murky images...
Some of those images were, in their grotesque way, priceless: a woman staggering down the street trying not to scrape her new, no-down-payment dining room table on the pavement; another lady attempting to jam her stolen sofa onto a pickup truck already overladen with loot. Modern America's great guiding principle, shop till you drop, was in process of revision; steal till you kneel was more like...