Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, though, there's voodoo afoot, black magic in the air and an ominous sense of doom hanging over Harvard. This team may win every conference game it plays, it may overwhelm Boston College, it may even get a trip to Madison, Wisc. for the Final Four...
...treatment, Musker and Clements (The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid) took over. But something was wrong with the story. "It just wasn't compelling," Katzenberg says. "Aladdin's journey didn't engage." At first, the hero had a mother with a personality forceful enough to overwhelm the callow hero. But then, every character and event did. "We would look at the story reels," Katzenberg said, "and even Jasmine was blowing him away." A year into development, the boss junked the script...
...scale. The millennium has a gravitational pull that draws in the largest meanings, if only because its frame of reference is so enormous. The millennial drama represents nothing less than the ritual death and rebirth of history, one thousand-year epoch yielding to another. Such imponderable masses of time overwhelm and humble the individual life-span, reducing human tragedies and accomplishments to windblown powder...
...familiar, more communicative to people. But at the same time, there will be a general humiliation of language," says Neil Postman, chairman of New York University's communications department. Our connection with the real world may grow ever more tenuous as images increasingly supplant words and symbolic gestures overwhelm rational argument. The portent is ominous: How can an electorate conditioned by MTV ever have the patience to solve the budget deficit...
Anger at the U.S. did not overwhelm the feeling of elation that the summit was taking place. "This event is focusing world attention back on the environment as the most important issue of our time," said Russell Mittermeier, president of the Washington-based Conservation International. Activists see the summit not as the climax of their crusade but only the beginning. (See related story on page...