Word: overshadow
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Venter was clearly ready. His tactless rhetoric had lost him respect among his colleagues, and he recognized that more controversy could overshadow a historic moment in biomedicine. Beyond that, he'd taken a beating in the marketplace. After a joint declaration by Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in March that all genomic information should be free, the value of Celera stock plummeted from $189 a share...
...crossing the street to the media encampment calling out "It's time to go live," the way other families announce "It's time for dinner"--ran an enviable press operation. The loopy, frequently hospitalized Marisleysis was hysterical over supposedly doctored photos of a smiling Elian but savvy enough to overshadow the Attorney General's press conference with her guided tour through the upturned bedroom. After Donato Dalrymple joined the Gonzalez household, so crowded with hangers-on it resembled the Marx Brothers' stateroom in A Night at the Opera, Marisleysis burnished his image as the heroic fisherman who saved Elian...
...Hollywood's immortal directors and produced the film, Sofia competently handles the job of director on her virgin film debut. Stylistically, the film has an interesting low-fi, '70s feel that adds to the mystery and spectral nature of the film. But the stylistic achievement unfortunately can't overshadow the problematic content that plagues it, and eventually relegates it to the label of "a good movie". After leaving the theater, the film's publicist asked me what I thought, and playing it safe, I replied with the aforementioned catch-all phrase. She said that was everybody's reaction...
This glut of advertising is not necessarily bad: Advertising can be quite beautiful, and is often much more innovative and funnier than the programs between which it is sandwiched. Ads for the Super Bowl and now for the Oscars have become premier events unto themselves and at times overshadow the presumed draw of football or movie stars. In 10 years, the top awards show is likely to be the Clio, the award for achievements in advertising. In some ways the Oscars are already as self-serving: We do buy the idea that movie people, renamed the "Academy," can vote...
...When it comes to innovations in library administration, glitzy new information technology generally gets the press. Yet the speed and glamour of digitized archives and meticulously cross-referenced databases overshadow one of the more fundamental changes in the structure of the modern research library: the invention of the book warehouse...