Word: overblown
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Test Matches. Cooke makes no attempt to be a political oracle, is not regarded as such in Britain. Ordinarily he avoids political predictions, sticks to interpreting what has happened, and, in doing so, usually leans toward the Administration line. But his shrewd wit can often knock an overblown issue down to its true perspective. When other correspondents wrote of a 'Rising tide" of anti-British sentiment in 1949, Cooke observed: "Senator Kem of Missouri . . . has never constituted a rising tide...
After more than three years in Cinemogul Hughes's vaults, Vendetta has now been released, with an advertising splurge featuring Faith Domergue in a fetching décolletage (which never appears on the screen). The film is a solemn attempt to puff up the overblown passions of Colomba, Prosper Mérimée's novel of 19th Century Corsican intrigue. It will make many a moviegoer wonder what all the shooting and reshooting were about...
...major of guerrillas is a stock movie hero. He is equipped with a comic sidekick from Pocatello (Tom Ewell), a Tommy gun that never needs reloading, a romance that blossoms in warmest Technicolor during interludes of song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time to get ardent comfort from Hero Power...
...even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...lively flair for broad strokes of comedy. Even when the movie gets close to his old home grounds, as in the cleanly staged scenes of overseas action, he tints it brightly with a sense of the ridiculous. In the French underground, bosomy Starlet Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies, lampoons the bellicose American Legionnaire father with merciless skill. Dan Dailey flings himself into the best role...