Word: overloaders
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...style for all seasons, but new coiffures are coming up on the outside. Among them: a Hell's Angel look and what Supercuts haircutting chain calls "gangster chic." The first, a greasy down-and-dirty tousle once displayed by actor Mickey Rourke, can be achieved by gel overload or shampoo avoidance. For the gangster look, men can turn for inspiration to the oily Mafia sleekness seen in GoodFellas and the forthcoming Godfather III; actor Andy Garcia is its patron saint...
...appetite for glucose. To compensate, the pancreas heroically pumps out more and more insulin. Usually it is able to keep up with the work load. As Dr. Jeffrey Flier, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Hospital, emphasizes, "Most obese people do not have diabetes." In susceptible individuals, however, obesity can overload the system, and insulin-producing cells begin to stop functioning. One intriguing, if controversial, hypothesis suggests that obese people may produce large quantities of amylin, a protein made by the same cells that secrete insulin. Some researchers believe that amylin deposits in the pancreas contribute to diabetes by interfering with...
...credit crunch and oil shock will cause new suffering in Third World countries, which already bear an overload of political and economic woes. In one of the most seriously affected nations, Bangladesh, officials estimate that the gulf crisis will cost the impoverished country $220 million a year in higher oil prices and $100 million in lost remittances from Bangladeshi workers who have fled Kuwait and Iraq. The Philippines, which imports almost all its oil, will have to borrow heavily to keep its factories running and prevent unemployment from soaring above the present rate of 12.6%. Deepening Third World troubles will...
...exposition. The characters don't grow or learn, they just get found out. Same, in spades, here. So it is Scorsese's triumph that GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history. He has said he wanted his picture to have the speed and info overload of a movie trailer. Two great labyrinthine tracking shots -- at a neighborhood bar and the Copacabana -- introduce, with lightning grace, about a million wise guys. Who are they? What are they doing, and who are they doing in? Just to catch all the ambient wit and bustle, you have...
Some news executives attribute this youthful apathy to information overload and the explosion of media options. "We had one television in the house, and we had to watch the news when Daddy came home," recalls Steve Friedman, 43, executive producer of NBC's Nightly News; today's young people "have got their own TV and their own video systems." Friedman is trying to make the NBC newscast "more relevant" to young viewers by stressing family issues and adding touches of irreverent humor. Louis Heldman, who is studying how to counteract declining readership for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, observes that...