Word: high-strung
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Many insiders marvel at Hermann's touch for managing high-strung talent. With Galliano, she knew when to challenge and when to back off. So after he showed her samples of shockingly immodest miniskirts and transparent tops, Hermann says, she nudged him into lining them. But after 9/11, when Galliano created a collection in camouflage, Hermann didn't comment?and the public loved...
...Evening is, to borrow an antique movie company slogan, "In The Tradition of Quality," which in olden times meant adaptations of high-toned popular fiction. No one ever got to say what was on their minds in those films, which often featured feverish and high-strung emoting by such live-wire nut jobs as Bette Davis or Joan Crawford who would haul a handgun out of her handbag and plug whoever was thwarting her hormonal needs. Here everyone suffers in hushed silence...
...Long Island landmarks to a beach house owned by Spooner (Chris Bowers), the hot Buddhist astrophysicist of the bunch. “Sing Now” is most engaging when it develops the friends’ personal stories. There’s the maybe-gay starving actor, the high-strung boring one with the loudmouth wife (played by the irritating Molly Shannon of “Saturday Night Live” semi-fame), the L.A. hotshot, the Manhattan lawyer divorcee, and the normal guy who keeps measuring his receding hairline in inches. They’ve all got their idiosyncrasies...
...trio attempt to control a situation which becomes larger and more outrageous by the second. I would be willing to bet that the play holds the world record for most doors slammed per minute. Much of this shuffling, hiding and slamming is done by Brian, Peter’s high-strung and easily cowed colleague who makes the mistake of signing for the original package and is therefore given the task of disposing of it. His antics—from being drugged to fending off the advances of an overeager pair of prostitutes—provide most of the play?...
...Thus, he explains, a single line from Lewis’ first chapter—“This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids”—became the high-strung Nazi bombing episode that opens the film.“I wanted to wake them up, say, ‘This is a big story,’” Adamson says.This magnifying approach continued as Adamson visualized the film’s climax. Lewis narrates...