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According to the Standing Committee report, women with multiple departmental affiliations "report a real sense of overload...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenure Problems Persist for Women | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

...Florida recount was five weeks of spin overload. The sheer volume of the stuff (in the sense of both quantity and noise level) was impressive enough. Consider as well how effortlessly the spin machine handled all the hairpin turns. Every amazing development and reversal in the drama was converted within minutes into two or three talking points for each side to repeat without mercy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Spin Machine | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...this one takes place in a single ring, which as far as I am concerned is the way the circus was meant to be seen. Sure, there is something to be said for the pure spectacle of the three-ring circus, but I always found it created a sensory overload that made it hard to focus on the feats of skill and daring that were taking place on the sawdust below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fears of a Clown | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...both perpetual adolescents. When Elvis was performing, the person in the farthest balcony seat thought Elvis was performing directly for him. Go into a large room of people with Bill Clinton, and it seems like he's talking directly at you. It's a kind of rakish charm on overload. There's a disdain for both Clinton and Presley by the East Coast elites, who saw them as backward, Pentecostal hillbillies, when in truth both were very sophisticated at what they do. They will both be forever lampooned, yet real people who understand popular music know why Elvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: What We'll Remember | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...that means that the hosts' personalities were critical. Regis, of course, inspires his own breed of adoration or animosity, but those reactions are based more on his hyper-critical (and sometimes just plain hyper) personality, or perhaps a strain of "Millionaire"-inspired Regis overload. With Kathie Lee, it's different: When you get right down to it, there is something disconcerting about her. No, actually, that's not true at all. There are many, many disconcerting things about her - not the least of which is her single-minded conviction that the American people deserve to experience her presence as often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good-bye, Kathie Lee. We Knew Far, Far Too Much About Ye | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

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