Word: overblown
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...unpublicized) role in defusing potential outbreaks of war in the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. Now the agency's recommendations have dried up. Intelligence sources variously describe the Directorate of Operations as "dead in the water" and "paralyzed." While CIA leaders call such characterizations overblown, other Government officials note that the agency has shown no sign of taking action, which might have been expected in the past, to restrain Portugal's lurch toward a left-whig dictatorship...
...hype, including umbrella-festooned theater lobbies--and give those people a chance to see the other 97 minutes. MGM would have done better to confine itself to three minutes of Gene Kelly in the puddles. Unveiled in all its technicolor gaudiness, Singin' in the Rain stands revealed as an overblown, badly acted, often tedious extravaganza that almost drowns Kelly's perfect little droplet...
Bedtime Stories. About the only preparation she did receive was an overblown, month-long publicity tour during which CBS executives did little to discourage the impression, fostered by a suggestive New York magazine article, that she was a blonde seductress who would do anything to get stories. Worse, certain CBS executives evidently began to believe it. Quinn describes the efforts of some of them to land her in bed, most notably those of Sixty Minutes Producer Don Hewitt, who, she says, got himself assigned to direct her coverage of Princess Anne's wedding and announced, "London is such...
...Bogdanovich hasn't captured the style that made Astaire and Rogers so special. He user the overblown sets and casts of thousands that helped to kill of movie musicals in the late 60's when Fred and Ginger started dancing, all the people and furniture disappeared. Cybill and Burt, on the other hand, come dangerously close to bashing into a number of white silk couches--and also the other dancers...
...problem is tha Bogdanovich has overblown the whole thing. The scale he uses is far too large, the little that is clever in the script or acting gets swamped, and the acting, singing and dancing aren't good enough to even begin to make...