Word: overblown
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Together on the program with The Big Day is a film on Pablo Picasso. Although the short is marred by an overblown commentary, it presents well-photographed selections which well illustrate Picasso's development. Most interesting are some shots of the artist at work. One sequence, in which Picasso takes a vase fashioned of soft clay and with a few strokes of his hands turns it into the figure of a dove, is a small miracle of creation...
...biggest target under Air Force sights since the Korean armistice, Alabama's overblown (248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, whose pleasure sortie in a National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead...
...shocked to find that their boozy camaraderie of yore is dead as yesterday's glass of beer. Their strained efforts to rekindle brotherly love first produce boredom, then brotherly loathing. Kelly has degenerated into a Broadway fast-buck man who manages a double-dealing prizefighter; Dailey has overblown himself into a slobbish, ulcer-ridden TV idea man; Kidd, the papa of five of them, runs a crummy Schenectady diner specializing in "Cordon Blue" hamburgers...
Slimmed down from his normal bulk to a trim 175, Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Archie Moore was a good big man, able but ancient (38). Up from 160 Ibs., to an overblown 170, Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson, 26, was a good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper...
...Hecht had confined his autobiography to a personal record of such activities, it would have made more interesting reading. But he has padded it with feats of overblown metaphor ("My throat is sick with too much living, as if I had swallowed a long stove pipe") and bursts of gassy lamentation ("About those around me-hardly any have ever given me anything I could use as a human being -love, understanding or comfort"). A Child of the Century drives home the lesson that words and phrases are best kept short and plain-a fact Hecht might have learned from...