Word: excessive
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...impressive of all is the way Saccente orchestrates the action of the entire cast (this is the greatest staging challenge in an piece where almost all the characters are present from start to finish). Moreover, he exhibits the same control in his own acting. In a role that invites excess, Saccente is all understatement. He achieves more with a grin or a wink than a lesser actor would with a flurry of gesticulations...
...from the last time Dole began a presidential bid, in 1987, with a stark, conventional announcement from his hometown of Russell, Kansas. With 54 weeks to go before the New Hampshire primary, the Republican contest for President is lifting off quickly--and shedding its excess baggage almost as fast. Last week it was Jack Kemp's turn. The man who helped define Reaganism, the humane champion of free enterprise, decided not to run. ``Many in the party,'' he told recently, ``have moved further to the right than I feel comfortable with. What I believe in--that we should include everyone...
Congratulations for taking on a major social issue in your report on overweight Americans [Cover Story, Jan. 16]. While the leading reasons for obesity continue to be studied, there can be little argument that it is caused largely by an excess of food, insufficient exercise and a growing lack of self-respect. Time to shape up, America...
...torpor but haven't the emotional strength. It will take an outsider to revive this troubled lot, and she arrives in the form of Bette Mack, a taciturn beauty in pink sneakers as drawn to the Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia. The author has not realized Bette as thoughtfully as she has the other characters, and the reader never fully understands what it is about this girl that so deeply touches the Iris family...
...entire tradition of French art behind him. The artfully twisted limbs and contorted white bodies come not from "Schindler's List" but from The Raft of the Medusa and The Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix and Gericault sit on Chereau's shoulders like twin angels of visual excess. (Chereau also includes nods to Rembrandt; Pascal Greggory as Margot's brother Anjou is a dead ringer for Rembrandt's Polish Rider...