Word: overloaders
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...similar information overload happens every time a big news story breaks. For hours, radio and television repeat what they know ("for those who tuned in late") and raise unanswered questions about the rest; they are joined later by newspapers and magazines. They are all doing their competitive best, and much is quickly learned by the newsgatherers, but oh, the surfeit of words...
Death suffers from an overload of sunstruck prose: "Her round face was a moon watching over the vast territorial imperatives of her body." Even so, Bradbury remains a conjurer, and whenever his plot or prose flags, he brings on a new character: the worst barber in the world; "a circus of one" who moves his feast of dogs, cats, geese and parakeets from a roof in the summer to a basement in the winter, never speaking to people, only singing to them; a gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they...
...overload of teaching can, and frequently does, slow down the completion of the Ph.D. degree excessively," the committee wrote. "The major activities of a graduate student should be scholarship and research, culminating in the writing and completion of the thesis...
...overload of teaching can, and frequently does, slow down the completion of the PhD degree excessively," the committee wrote. "The major activities of a graduate student should be scholarship and research, culminating in the writing and completion of the thesis...
...classical pianist. She would have chamber concerts with her musician friends, in the living room, while in another room my father would be conferring with nine or ten other men in the business about how to build a computerized mousetrap. These opposite life-styles would give me circuit overload. My tweeters would burn out and my only insulation would be my bedroom door, which remained closed for most of my life. I had to put towels under the jamb so I couldn't hear the classical music and the computer logic. My bedroom was like all the rooms...