Word: over-the-top
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Fortunately, Guys and Dolls not just stands up to these expectations; itswing dances past them with more energy than an outlawed crap game. The entire cast's over-the-top cheeziness, along with a combination of talent rarely seen in one production, makes every single character in the show so ridiculous and lovable that the audience adores each of them on sight. Oh, yeah--and they can sing and dance...
...Cary Rosko sings the part of Tessa (Giuseppe's wife) loudly and down-right charmingly, although she could stand to be a little more silly (this is Gilbert and Sullivan, after all), like her compatriot Julie Quenlan, a graduate student at the New England Conservatory who is delightfully over-the-top as the giggly and giddy wife of Marco, Gianetta...
...virtually sold. Phones are so tiny and nifty now. They slip discreetly into pockets and purses. A simple route to being over-the-top. I've often considered the possibility of just buying a phone, not getting it connected and cheerfully talking to myself in public with no accusations of insanity. But I still can't really justify the purchase. Sure, sometimes it is a hassle to get all of my whirlwind plans in order, but usually it works itself out. Shaw suggests that one reason phones are popping up all over the place is that it works...
...enduring of all movie monsters--vampires. After dreaming up such characters as Michael Myers, Snake Plisken and Starman, there's no way Carpenter's career could have been complete without at least one film about bloodsuckers. The resulting effort is John Carpenter's Vampires, a piece of joyful, over-the-top, gonzo trash film-making that delights in wallowing in its own bloodbaths. Every vampire film boasts its own interpretation of the sacred "rules" of vampirism. In Vampires, James Woods' master slayer, Jack Crow, snarls "Forget everything you've seen in the movies. It's not like vampires go around...
...public responsibilities, its electric sense of conveying current events and its knowing portraits of people actually doing their jobs. Who, besides Wolfe, would have thought that banking and real estate transactions could be the stuff of gripping fiction? Who else would have set a scene, the most over-the-top in the whole novel, in the breeding barn at Turpmtine, where Charlie, in a misguided attempt to impress his guests from Atlanta, makes them, male and female alike, witness a tumultuous mating between one of his stallions and a mare? "I attended just such an event in mixed company...