Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reward for accumulating knowledge." The more pressing concern is political survival. Also, the turnover in Congressmen and their staff experts makes it difficult for the House to sustain an institutional understanding of programs that go through generations and keep enlarging each year. "The big Government problem is the information overload at the center," says Stockman. There is just too much for most members of Congress to absorb in too short a time...
...what is the closing tune, "The Overload," doing on the album? Even Byrne calls it an anomaly. It is reminiscent of a funeral march but the critics have been comparing it to the latest posthumously popularized group Joy Division. It sounds to me like Eno's obsession, Ambient Music. In concept, Ambient Music attempts to create the ambience of listening to music without the music. In practice, it sounds like a kitchen with all the electric appliances on. The fact that Eno has released about ten albums in the last five years using a concept good for two albums...
...Senator Paul Tsongas believes that Democrats must change their ways. "The party must face up to it," says Tsongas. There are six basic realities to address, he says, and the party that confronts them will be the majority party of the future: 1) the energy crisis, 2) the "biosphere overload"-hazardous wastes, etc., 3) nationalism in the Third World, 4) a new view of the Soviet Union, taking into account the difficult times ahead for that butter-shy, gun-heavy society, 5) the reality of the nonexpanding economic pie, 6) the need to be competitive economically in world trade...
Newcomers to Bradbury risk sensory overload by galloping through the book in the manner of the author's anthem sprinters. It is best to amble through this delightful collection. The volume, after all, contains 100 stories. A careful reader, consuming one a night, can make it last into the New Year. -By Peter Stoler...
...Statue of Liberty in mothballs until we can assimilate the overload we are now carrying...