Word: over-the-top
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...gifted cast who, under the direction of Katherine M. Bencowitz ’03, clearly understands and conveys the fundamental source of the play’s humor. It is evident that all the actors know their characters inside and out; more importantly, their performances are fearlessly over-the-top, without being grating. The result is an audience often rocking with laughter...
...pair of Burberry pants, but he wears them in an attempt to be ironic rather than stylish. “Truth be told, I think the brand is getting pretty played out,” he says. According to Teslik, his pants “are so over-the-top that it’s hard to take them too seriously. Of course, this goes right over the heads of much of the scarf-wearing population, who invariably tell me that my pants are ‘so cool,’ but what...
...move put Nair a bit out of the loop. She followed up with cable-TV films and some lukewarmly received features, including Kama Sutra, an over-the-top costume (and often costume-less) drama. Monsoon, with five plot lines and (by Nair's count) 68 characters, feels like her first real epic, but it started small. It cost only about $2 million and the shoot took 30 days, with up to four scenes a day filmed on handheld cameras. Although it's been a smash with critics, Monsoon Wedding isn't up for a foreign-film Oscar this year - India...
...sounds like a pretty standard bunch of kids. How can a student make himself (or herself) stand out in this sort of interview setting without seeming too over-the-top...
...secret. That was when a book proposal about Ginger, a.k.a. "IT," got leaked to the website Inside.com Kamen had been working on Ginger for more than a decade, and although the author (with whom the inventor is no longer collaborating) never revealed what Ginger was, his precis included over-the-top assessments from some of Silicon Valley's mightiest kingpins. As big a deal as the PC, said Steve Jobs; maybe bigger than the Internet, said John Doerr, the venture capitalist behind Netscape, Amazon.com and now Ginger...