Word: overloaders
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...event of an overload, he said, Dickens could mingle with chickens, since the library could use Harvard Dining Services freezers...
...Harvard: clean, elegant composition, perhaps a simple logo, and all the pertinent information. A far cry from the font-crazy ravings of today that, in their witty enthusiasm, often leave off important pieces of information. There are too many organizations promoting too many things. As students sink in information overload, organization's sink into the muck of cheap puns. Their audience, ever more weary of the insipid posters and T-shirts that have become inescapable, get even harder to reach. And so the cycle continues...
Probably the overload began with the Neolithic revolution, when males who were used to a career of hunting and bragging were suddenly required to stay home and help out with the crops. Then came the modern urban-industrial era, with the unprecedented notion of the "companionate marriage." Abruptly, the * two sexes -- who had gone for millenniums without exchanging any more than the few grunts required for courtship -- were expected to entertain each other with witty repartee over dinner...
...despite the future-shock flourishes, most of Zooropa flies beneath the radar, mapping a personal terrain of reflection and emotional catharsis. The sensory overload of superstardom is chillingly conveyed in Numb as the Edge's monotonic vocal is underscored by a lacerating guitar lick. Other songs are suffused with a sense of fleeting time. In Some Days Are Better than Others, Bono observes, "Some days take less but most days take more/ Some days slip through your fingers and onto the floor." And in the hymnlike Dirty Day, he seems to glimpse his own mortality as he sings, "These days...
...splashy, action-packed violence of movies. Many claim that the reason the Los Angeles police officers were let off the first time was because the jury had seen the videotape of Rodney King's beating so many times that they were no longer shocked. This type of visual overload in turn deadens our impulse to act, our outrage at real violence...