Word: hyperthyroidal
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...most standards, Doctors' Wives is a terrible movie. This does not prevent it, however, from being fun. In fact, it is an enormously entertaining slab of Hollywood kitsch because of, not despite, its outrageous plot turns, its hyperthyroid acting and its determination to out-sex and out-suds even the seamiest TV soap opera. It is an example of assembly-line, big-studio moviemaking at its grotesque best...
...officers are at once innocent and culpable. Many Eastern European pictures were unavailable; American companies prefer to release their films without any festival foreplay. But no such restrictions forced the selection of solemn bores and hedged experiments that mark the 1970 festival. Presented with inconsistent aesthetic standards, promoted with hyperthyroid jargon ("vertiginous spatial ambiguity . . . total meta-theatricality"), the New York Film Festival continues an uneven tradition now running into its eighth year. Some representative features...
...refused and sounded the horn again. That did it. Janis, as a fan reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with a string of oaths and obscenities, whereupon the cops hustled her off to jail on charges of using profanity and indecent language. Free on bail, the queen of hyperthyroid blues insisted: "I say anything I want onstage. I don't mind getting arrested because I've turned a lot of kids...
...handed direction of Francis Ford Coppola, 29, whose only previous Hollywood feature was the moderately comic You're a Big Boy Now. Astaire and Clark are saddled with threadbare brogues, and both talk as if they were dictating letters to a tape recorder. Tommy Steele's hyperthyroid performance mistakes popped eyeballs for emotion and shrieks for singing. Coppola's idea of a scene-stopper is a bunch of flowers. Whenever the action halts, he brings on fields of roses, daffodils and chrysanthemums. Ennui is so frequent that by the end, Finian's Rainbow boasts more bouquets...
Lawman. Well aware that he sometimes comes over as a hyperthyroid hippie, Kennedy trimmed both his tresses and his rhetoric to please the Hoosiers. He made vaguely conservative sounds about big, distant government. He never stopped saying that the U.S. must cure the causes of racial unrest, but he stressed the need for peace in the streets. "Violence won't get you better housing or better jobs or better education for your children," he told Negroes. He reminded white listeners: "I was the chief law-enforcement officer of the U.S. for 3½ years. This nation must have...