Word: overloadings
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...fact does not stop the two pen pals from making comparisons. Yet the assessments share an ideal of high-mindedness, of scaling some moral peak that towers over fallible theories and suspect ideologies. Parts of letters read like encounters in The Magic Mountain and offer clues to the thematic overload in McCarthy's last novels. Happily, most of the exchanges have the vitality and cutting edge of her earlier fiction...
...slowing the metabolism so that the body can store more fat. By contrast, when a person gains weight, the hypothalamus decreasses appetite and speeds metabolism. However, the brain does not seem to work as hard to ward off weight gain as it does to combat weight loss; overeating can overload the system. Moreover, the discovery of an obesity gene suggests that many people inherit a tendency to maintain a set point that is too high...
...Center for Science in the Public Interest calls "a heart attack on a plate," or those tubs of greasy movie-theater popcorn, which pack four days' worth of fat into a container nearly as big as a fire bucket, or those servings of extra-rich Haagen-Dazs Triple Brownie Overload, each of which contains 44 grams of fat -- the artery clogging equivalent of half a stick of butter...
Zhang Yimou is prone to relying on visual gimmicks. Whether it was the wine in "Red Sorghum", the lanterns in "Raise the Red Lantern" or the dyed fabric in "Ju Dou," his cinematic crutch is obvious and sometimes self-defeating--it forces the viewer into visual overload. "To Live" is a happy exception...
...pages," ordinarily includes not just textual but also graphical and even aural data. That is, users of the Web expect to encounter graphics to punctuate the text at every turn. If the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" is true, then graphics are vital to reduce information overload on-line...