Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fair in Love and Show Biz Andrew Lloyd Webber brought Aspects of Love to Broadway in more ways than one. Critics found the hit musical's score overwrought and the plot unlikely. In real life, the composer highlighted one of love's least admirable aspects when he announced a separation from wife Sarah Brightman and helpfully included the name of his mistress in the press release...
...visit the Ryder retrospective, the first in a generation, which has been assembled with meticulous scholarship by Elizabeth Broun at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 8), is to become sharply aware of the limits of the Ryder myth. He is like Poe -- so overwrought, yet so influential. One sees, not for the first or only time, the paradox of American art in its larval days: how its course could be deeply affected, and the enthusiasm of its artists unstintingly engaged, by works whose actual aesthetic merits often seem slight...
...overwrought Seth D. Tapper '91 rebuking Rabbi Meir Kahane for his ultraright wing brand of Israeli politics. Kahane's unscheduled visit to the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel resulted in a walkout by students and staff on Thursday...
...needs and neuroses of those who are fighting, and largely failing, to keep their waistlines under control. Americans spent more than $30 billion last year on such offerings as diet books, videotapes, appetite suppressants, "lite" foods, low-calorie beverages and commercial weight-loss programs. Now the overweight and overwrought are rushing to try the latest raft of crash-diet plans, which promote ways to trim fat quickly by doing little more than taking pills or swilling specially formulated drinks...
George Bush has overthrown two foreign governments since becoming President. Toppling the dictatorial regime of Panama in December required 24,000 U.S. troops. Sending Israel's overwrought democracy into a nervous breakdown last month took only four words from Bush's lips...