Word: over-the-top
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...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...
...mainstream success with the New Order cover “Blue Monday”). Instead, Slipknot abandoned much of the commercial appeal of their first album, namely their hip-hop base, and instead embraced the more esoteric elements of death metal and hardcore—double-bass drumming, over-the-top shredding guitar, and grinding vocals...
Unfortunately, while Rushing’s character rants to the audience about how nicotine withdrawal makes her feel like Atilla the Hun, her performance lacks the psychotic intensity needed to make the over-the-top scene work...
...girl-chases-boy. This cheerful innocence springs chiefly from Amélie’s adorable impishness, which Tautou conveys almost effortlessly. The slightest smile and the most imperceptible raise of an eyebrow convey so much, whether childlike awe or mischievous glee. In her hands, even an over-the-top line like, “I’m nobody’s little weasel,” comes across with precisely the right mixture of poignance and irony...
...characterizations are so unabashedly over-the-top, though, that even the most ardent adherents of the political correctness movement soon realize there’s simply no point in getting offended—such a response would involve taking the show seriously, and that misses the point...