Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chair. These can be repeated from picture to picture, thus giving the impression that such images are obsessive, a la Jasper Johns. This will lend an expectation of profundity to the series. Why profound? Because Salle, as everyone now knows, has discovered important metaphors of the meaningless overload of images in contemporary life. Thus his pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what all good little deconstructors would call their "refusal of authoritarian closure," meaning, roughly, that they don't mean anything in particular. It's as though those...
Most Hygienic Practice As landfills reached critical overload, citizens looked for solutions. Increasing numbers of households bundled newspapers for recycling. Business establishments added bins for recyclable cans and bottles. And debate raged over disposable vs. cloth diapers...
...style for all seasons, but new coiffures are coming up on the outside. Among them: a Hell's Angel look and what Supercuts haircutting chain calls "gangster chic." The first, a greasy down-and-dirty tousle once displayed by actor Mickey Rourke, can be achieved by gel overload or shampoo avoidance. For the gangster look, men can turn for inspiration to the oily Mafia sleekness seen in GoodFellas and the forthcoming Godfather III; actor Andy Garcia is its patron saint...
...appetite for glucose. To compensate, the pancreas heroically pumps out more and more insulin. Usually it is able to keep up with the work load. As Dr. Jeffrey Flier, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Hospital, emphasizes, "Most obese people do not have diabetes." In susceptible individuals, however, obesity can overload the system, and insulin-producing cells begin to stop functioning. One intriguing, if controversial, hypothesis suggests that obese people may produce large quantities of amylin, a protein made by the same cells that secrete insulin. Some researchers believe that amylin deposits in the pancreas contribute to diabetes by interfering with...
...credit crunch and oil shock will cause new suffering in Third World countries, which already bear an overload of political and economic woes. In one of the most seriously affected nations, Bangladesh, officials estimate that the gulf crisis will cost the impoverished country $220 million a year in higher oil prices and $100 million in lost remittances from Bangladeshi workers who have fled Kuwait and Iraq. The Philippines, which imports almost all its oil, will have to borrow heavily to keep its factories running and prevent unemployment from soaring above the present rate of 12.6%. Deepening Third World troubles will...