Word: high-strung
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...matched pair, Lynsky as Pauline and Winslet as Juliet are well-differentiated and developed. Juliet comes from the upper class, and Pauline from the very lower-middle, as their respective accents demonstrate. In temperament, Lynsky is a perfectly sullen Pauline, flat-faced and brooding, while Winslet makes a high-strung Juliet, blonde and impulsive. Pauline's ubiquitous heavy awkwardness is less demanding than Juliet's rapid-fire swings from copious tears to maniacal happiness, but both Lynsky and Winslet manage to make their characters more than caricatures of polar emotion...
...High-strung actress is dropped from Sunset Boulevard...
...Rupert Murdoch blithely concedes, "will certainly be a loss." But these days in the televi -- that is, information superhighway -- business, the iffy expenditure of billion-dollar sums is required in order to be considered visionary. "It's a plan for the future," says Lucie Salhany, Murdoch's charmingly high-strung network president, of the football deal. "It takes the network to another level." In other words, it's a 21st century thing, and if you don't get it, you're a plodder and a bean counter...
Perhaps, the idea of e-mail as a mental vacation explains the rabid mob that descends into the Science Center basement after every class. High-strung premeds pour out of Science Center B and down the stairs, mingling with the zombie-like Core crowd filling in from Memorial Hall. Once there, they jockey for seats, of which there never seem to be enough...
...hunches and adrenal instinct that makes people finally just go for it. Since show-business executives are uncommonly sensitive to go-for-it twitches, it would have been weird if a competing bidder had not stepped in to turn the friendly merger of Paramount Communications and Viacom into the high-strung, insanely complicated struggle it became last week...