The central joke in Spaced was the use of overblown, American film clichés to tell the banal story of life in a north London flat share.
Crucially, today's studies suggest fears about long-term damage from the classic hallucinogens like LSD and psilocybin are overblown, and relate to use of inappropriate doses in uncontrolled settings without careful preparation and support during and afterwards.
Paul may even have used the same painted sets, and every aspect of his film, from the overblown acting style to the use of a camera fixed in the front row of the stalls, seems to have been designed to give each member of the cinema audience the best seat in the house.
But a later review in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention claimed those findings were overblown, likening increased risk to the use of antihistamines or penicillin.
Yet whether or not the use of such sophisticated and overblown militarized equipment is justified, many local police units still feel compelled to put it to use.
The mayor has defenders, or at least people who believe the case is overblown and suspect it is nothing more than the usual use of the justice system to settle scores among rival politicians.
This is followed by widespread use of said newly popular product, often driven by overblown pharmaceutical or media hype.
Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, told reporters here this week that he did not support a ban on the use of gray literature and that the news media had overblown the climate panel's missteps.
That last event makes atrociously opportunistic use of terrorism as a way of resolving Charles's by now wildly overblown troubles.
Through his use of clipped phrases, aborted gestures and distilled development, Mr. Constant manages to mock the overblown, crash-bang symphony and reinvent it for modern listeners.
Thanks to reality television design shows, the public may imagine that house design and the creative use of tight building plots is not unlike a game of Grand Theft Architecture in which overblown dramas unfold around the construction of architectural crime zones.
