Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton, who arrived here Sunday with Vice President-elect Al Gore '69, has spent the last days of his transition, balancing the populism, pageantry and policy-overload that characterized his campaign...
...DOMESTICATED DAVID LYNCH? IT was looking bad for a while. After giving the medium a jolt with Twin Peaks, he let the series run too long on circuit overload. His next show, On the Air, was a heavy-handed TV satire just slightly to the left of WKRP in Cincinnati. But the old, weird Lynch is back in HOTEL ROOM, an HBO trilogy of stories, two of them directed by Lynch from scripts by Barry Gifford. A hooker (Glenne Headly) is caught in a psychological sparring match between a seedy customer and his mysterious friend; a husband (Crispin Glover) tries...
Ashbery's meanderers are lost in, or overwhelmed by, crowds--of people, of data, of events, of promises. His speakers suffer from information overload, which leads to an amiable, brooding loneliness, an inability to stay focused on anything. One poem begins, "Tell me more...Actually we're overextended" ("Of Dreams and Dreaming"); many open with floods of pronouns, producing, temporarily, an infinity of possible contexts...
...bourgeoisie and racked by working-class (especially anarchist) rebellion. Catalans are archetypally producers rather than dreamers, and they tend to pride themselves on what they call seny, common sense raised almost to the level of a theological virtue. They like you to know they have molta feina, a work overload. They do not see themselves or their capital as picturesque; that they leave to the Andalusians. Barcelona is no more like Seville or Granada than Milan is like Naples...
...drummer, Johnny Koncz, must either be untalented, restrained or woefully bored. His beat varies little both within and between songs. The guitarist, Danny Hulsizer, however, is kept superbusy making noise. Sure, his strumming sounds fine in isolated spurts, but its constancy tends to overload the listener. This lack of gaps plagues many songs; empty spaces of silence often are as valuable as the music itself...