Word: oversold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under the Johnson Administration, it often seemed as if the best was barely good enough. Policies were regularly oversold. Part of the reason, notes Lance Liebman, assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School, lay in the "grandiloquent personality" of the President. His hubris found a parallel in the "national mood among the educated, professional, managerial classes," writes Liebman. They were persuaded that "technology had infinite capacity to produce the good life, at low cost...
Bowie said the he "thought the idea of detente had been oversold." He said that the detente did not mean complete cooperation, but only a "live and let live" relationship. A competitive relationship still exists between the two world powers, Bowie said...
...wandering Jews of Vienna offer a catalogue of explanations for why they want to leave Israel. Some are simply naive; they were oversold by Israeli broadcasts or, more often, by stories passed along on the Soviet Jewish grapevine. Laments a young mother of two: "They said you didn't buy eggs in Israel. They simply lay about in the streets." Others are convinced that they had been lured to Israel as cannon fodder for its wars. "It's the fault of the American Jewish millionaires," says Tbilisi Shopkeeper Joseph Mamishva-lov. "They pay their money but want...
...Bormann, the world's most wanted and most elusive man." In fact, as the series unfolded, it stirred up more speculation than it swept aside. Among the questions it raised: Had Farago been duped by his sources? Had the Express been shortchanged by Farago? Had readers been oversold by the Express...
...starting with the release of Lost Horizon next spring. Currently, audiences in New York City and Los Angeles can see her in a remarkable Swedish epic called The Emigrants (see ESSAY). Hundreds of new stars have burst onto U.S. screens before, of course, many of them producers' playmates, oversold or overaged stage ingenues, voices without bodies, bodies without voices, paper dolls cut out of publicity releases, inflatable, rubberized sex bombs. Liv is something different. Lost Horizon Producer Ross Hunter says, with characteristic modesty: "As soon as I met her I knew that if she would let me I could...