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Word: overloads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rigid System. On the ice, the Russians skate as a five-man unit, working the puck into the slot in front of the goal rather than taking low-percentage outside shots. According to Shero, they also "like to overload a zone, throwing four men on one side, gambling that you'll panic and throw the puck away." Shero claims that use of one particular Russian practice technique-skating out of the corner to beat the goalie at close range -gave the Flyers 40 goals last year. Says he: "We won the cup with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Summit on Ice | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...dean's office tries to grant as many requests to people as possible, yet at the same time they are careful not to overload an entry-way with too many similar types, such as prep school people or pre-meds. "Many people ask 'Give me a Californian,''' Young says, "but the dean's office won't sacrifice an entry's geographical variety unless it is unavoidable...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Freshman Poker Game | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...Russell's Tommy is the ultimate trip, the ultimate TV show. Its central metaphor is a deaf, dumb and blind person playing pinball--total sensory overload. Add some drugs (the audience), loud music in five-track Quintaphonic sound, and a camera that socks back and forth like an All rabbit punch, and you have an experiences so full that it cancels itself out. You buck and heave uncontrollably for two hours and waddle out of the theater, hoping that you'll smash the car into a wall on the way home or something because maybe that...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Sure Playing a Mean Pinball | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...pictures and to the formality of cubist collage could be talked about without heat and seen, not as proof of derivativeness, but as simply part of his work's ecology. Besides, the '50s were the last time a public could be provoked by art. (Since then, an overload of images has rendered art's audience blase.) This seems to have confronted Rauschenberg with a crisis after his silk-screen paintings won the Venice Biennale in 1964-a dead zucchino now, but the Big Apple then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Enfant Terrible at 50 | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...plan will suspend enrollments in order to avoid an overload of patients at its existing centers at Kenmore Square and Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, Biblo said...

Author: By Hollis Gorman, | Title: Community Health Plan to Suspend Enrollment Of New Members in Effort to Avoid Overload | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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