Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sears' approach goes against the grain in more ways than one. His books contradict the prevailing orthodoxy of high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. He contends that an excess of carbs forces the body to overproduce insulin, a hormone that promotes fat storage. The Zone doesn't forbid all carbs--high-fiber fruits and vegetables are fine--but it does discourage all the tastier ones. Like pasta, rice and bagels. Sears' position: Get over it. "If all bread left the face of the earth, we'd have a much healthier planet," he declares...
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...
...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...