Word: overloaders
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...addition to this imbalance and the voluptuous, sensory overload in the set, there was the highly lyrical language, crazed monologues, loud bar scenes and dissonant music. It is no wonder one left the performance feeling decidedly queasy. While the play may be about saturated appetites, hangovers and bitter aftertastes, surely the audience should not have experienced it just in watching...
...January 1996 there was another memo to Ickes and chief of staff Leon Panetta. This one, from Evelyn Lieberman, another deputy chief of staff, urged more coffees. In 1995 and '96 there would be a total of 103, several in a good week-- enough to produce mild caffeine overload and $27 million. But the really notable part of that memo was the warning by Lieberman that during two weeks of intense activity, "staff who routinely brief the President will be asked to be flexible during this period and accept that their briefings may be considerably truncated or eliminated...
...there seems to be a real problem that's more and more troubling in this new world of information overload--reliability...
...places? And what sort of news are they getting? Is it what they need to cope in a complex world, or just a lot of blather between the ads? These are the questions that every news organization must face as it tries to compete in the era of information overload...
Which still leaves consumers the task of sorting through it all. "People are experiencing a great information overload," says CNN president Tom Johnson. "It's up to us to find ways to simplify how the audience can receive this information." CBS News president Andrew Heyward sees another problem with the news explosion. "We seem to have lost a sense of proportion," he says. "Everything is made to seem equally important, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the latest scandal in Washington. We lack the vocabulary to convey the true importance of some events, because we're always moving...