Word: excessions
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Some students complain, however, that HDS tends to reuse leftover food to excess, noting the potatoes from dinner turn into home fries at breakfast the next morning...
...shooting started in July 1996, Fox negotiated with Universal, with which it had very profitably split the cost of True Lies. Universal was tantalized but scared. The budget, pegged slightly in excess of $100 million, seemed unrealistic. And the film was projected to run about three hours. At that length, theaters could get only one solid screening a night, which could hurt profits...
...actors seem so convinced of their respective situations, despite the film's ridiculously skewed reality, that this potential is violently destroyed. For instance, Jon Voight's villainous Southern lawyer (a mainstay in Grisham films) offers ravings so ludicrous and lathered in excess that the courtroom scenes descend into camp. But instead of feeding off Voight's over-acting, Damon is forced into moralistic grandstanding, creating a contradiction of tones that not only confuses, but frustrates...
...until the harvest, most of the work involves removing excess growth from the vines. Workers remove extra shoots, pluck leaves by hand to let in more sunlight and apply chemicals to the grape blooms to thin the bunches...
...this film rings true. The grief Sarajevo experienced during more than three years of siege was immediate and constant; any attempt to milk it for excess emotion would have missed the mark in the worst possible way, and despite its heartrending story, Welcome to Sarajevo manages not to. It captures the war's incessant rhythm, a constant call and response that made reflection a selfish luxury. "I'm all right," the main character tells his wife during a rare phone call from Sarajevo. Having said much the same in similarly inadequate calls, I know that he wasn't really...