Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...information overload resulting from a visit to the center is enough to intimidate the most optimistic high school student or delight the most over-achieving parent. There's nothing like a display of how intimately Harvard has been connected to the most minute and unimportant events in American history to make a hopeful parent beam and a stressed-out kid cringe. The info center has a timeline displayed on computer that goes into the details of all of Harvard's history, more than even the Crimson Key Society could handle. There is such a thing as too much Harvard trivia...
...them well known at the time. He has never done a commissioned portrait.) He began his big faces in the late 1960s, working directly from black-and-white photographs he took himself. The results were very strange. The images weren't "expressive." Their obsession is with fact, an overload of fact--not in the least with character. Their eyes don't contact the viewer: they look right through you. They were as anticosmetic as mug shots (some disconcertingly so: young Richard Serra looks like a dockland thug; his wife, artist Nancy Graves, like a snaggle-toothed...
After a few minutes, I soon met my co-contestants, went through make-up and, after many comments on my resemblance to actor Peter Gallagher, walked onto the set. I was immediately assailed by the art-deco-neon-overload-meets-industrial-constructi on set, complete with a live band, stacks of old books as props, local stand-up comic Greg Fitzsimmons as host, two attractive brunette "hostesses" (Heather and Shonda) in tight pastel blue outfits and a giant brain sitting in the center of the set. "`Jeopardy' on acid," I thought...
...reason to be cautious. Like all plants, hypericum contains a wide variety of compounds, including one that is known to cause sun sensitivity. Hypericum's effects in combination with other drugs are also cause for concern. Psychiatrists worry about the so-called serotonin syndrome, a kind of biochemical overload brought on by combining several antidepressants. Among the symptoms: nausea, slurred speech and muscle spasms...
...through the rest of 1996. ICG signed with Midwest giant American Electric Power to offer communications in Columbus and Canton, Ohio. Cascade, a Westford, Mass., company, will supply frame-relay devices to ICG's burgeoning Northern California network, allowing the Bay Area's techie firms to avoid Internet overload. Additional networks are building in the Southeast...