Word: overblown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, a man of formal, though gracious, manners and of considerable reserve. He is, for example, a born-again Christian, but many of his followers do not know it; he is exceedingly reluctant to discuss his faith. His humor runs to self-deprecating remarks delivered in a deliberately overblown, ornate style. Told last week that he seemed a bit tense on returning from a brief Florida holiday, he harrumphed: "I have not for a few days imbibed the excitement of the campaign trail, where the cheering multitudes tend to enhance your self-esteem...
...work was superb. There was none of the outrageous improvisation that marks Sellers' acting when he feels a project is going badly. "I was amazed at the discretion with which he handled the part," says Co-Star Melvyn Douglas. "Never was there a suggestion of having overblown any sense of it." Adds Richard Dysart, who played a doctor: "The texture of that man's work! He gave Hal Ashby two or three different characters?not that varied, but different. I began to see that there was a through line for each, that they were consistent." Ashby thus had not just...
...January to June of election year and could be compressed. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall, who ran unsuccessfully in 1976, suggests limiting the contests to four dates: the first Tuesday of each month from March to June. "This would provide a smorgasbord of elections around the country instead of these overblown single primaries," he explains...
...shortcomings of their art, and little is to be gained by rubbing their noses in the disparities. (For one thing, it might distract them from the job of forecasting the 1980s.) Still, a certain amount of carefully aimed derision is justified in a world increasingly buffeted by overblown future schlock. Most of all, it is useful to try to understand why the predictions about the 1970s so often came to nought...