Word: overloads
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...Lifelong Sox fan that I am, I certainly considered Fenway. But the team is so good these days that every game's a nuthouse experience. I felt that the whole megasized Major League showtime deal might lead to sensory overload, and Caroline would come away only with memories of shouting and screaming. Fenway just didn't feel right to me. I took Caroline to the Swan Boats last year-four rides!-but didn't even try to score tickets for that night's Sox game...
...people were experiencing reality and fiction was becoming so intertwined that they thought it would be an interesting thing to explore," Flanagan says. "If you go to the songs, then those are very personal songs, about marriage and intimacy and temptation. [Bono] wanted to know if all this sensory overload we experience in the world gives you permission to live for your own pleasure...
...eulogy to peace, love and understanding: "Just drop this already - on both sides."The first superpower cyberwar lasted nine days. By its end, more than 2,000 websites in China and the U.S. lay defaced: Chinese e-mail bombs had briefly blown the White House home page to overload hell and "hegemony" had entered the popular hacker vocabulary. The Chinese side plastered homages to Wang Wei, the fighter pilot lost at sea after a collision with a U.S. surveillance plane, on government, media and company sites across America. Pro-U.S. hackers promptly returned his image, retouched to show Wang...
...often the news just keeps us artificially awake, overstimulated. Information overload produces attention deficit disorder. Heraclitus said you cannot step into the same river twice - each instant, it becomes a different river. For some time, we have been living in the rapids. Just as Edmund Wilson's libido demanded a lifelong drill of undiscriminating erections (a sexual enactment of J. P. Morgan 's dictum: markets go up, markets go down), so the news demands an exhausting procession of moral arousals and judgments - outrage and sympathy, Diana and John, Bill and Monica. We are all Oprah...
There is also something comforting about the one-ring, intimate setting of the BAC, where even the worse seats are still within 50 ft. of the action. Without driving the audience into sensory overload, the BAC manages to charm through its time-tested approach to circus performance, and it will be interesting to see how the trendier big tops will fare once their novelty disappears. The fact that there is no effort to either glorify or mollify the circus’s tackiness makes the BAC a perfectly dignified little show...