Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book Agents of Influence by Pat Choate was roundly denounced by reviewers as an overwrought piece of Japan bashing and got him fired by TRW Inc., a high-tech company he had been serving as a kind of one-man think tank. But Ross Perot lauded the book on a Larry King Live TV show that Choate happened to be watching. Phone calls led to meetings that led to a jointly written 1993 Perot-Choate book excoriating the North American Free Trade Agreement; even some other treaty opponents found it overstated. Perot nonetheless has paid his coauthor--well...
...Undergraduate Council's recent recommendation to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to move the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony at Commencement off campus is misguided and overwrought. We understand the council's reasons: leaving it on campus could be construed as a violation of the University's non-discriminatory policy. Yet holding the ceremony off campus ignores the importance of ROTC to participants' college experiences...
...books reflect their authors' public personas. Darden's autobiographical memoir is brooding, complex, ambitious and at times emotionally overwrought. He has a habit, for instance, of referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals...
...Undergraduate Council's recent recommendation to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to move the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony at Commencement off campus is misguided and overwrought. We understand the council's reasons: leaving it on campus could be construed as a violation of the University's non-discriminatory policy. Yet holding the ceremony off campus ignores the importance of ROTC to participants' college experience...
...much of the world still honors this middle-aged venture is evident, then. But among some Western nations that designed it, at least, the U.N. today often appears worse than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium...