Word: overboard
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Brendan Fraser is wooden as Monty, but Monty is a wooden character--so in a way, this seems appropriate. While Josh Hamilton goes a little overboard as the peevish pre-med, the actors who play the other roommates give strong supporting performances. Moira Kelly is a friendly, energetic Courtney, one of the boys...yet very much a woman. And Patrick Dempsey, as Everett the WHRB deejay, is joyously lusty. Dempsey has played a debauched Harvard man before--namely, Jack Kennedy in the "Reckless Youth" miniseries. This reviewer can only hope Dempsey will play a debauched Harvard man again...
Although some die when vessels sink, many perish as a result of falling overboard without personal flotation devices. In several cases, the victims could have been kept afloat long enough to be rescued by fellow crew members...
...belongs behind bars. We're all a little bit frustrated with the annual Fenway collapse, but this is going overboard...
...remotely on the scale of Watergate, Whitewater is much different," Hall says. "Partly because the press played such a prominent role in Watergate... they've gone overboard to search for scandals since then...
...treated with BGH are more susceptible to udder infections, and they are worried that unless milk is rigorously inspected, antibiotics used to treat the cows could find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with genetically altered, artificial hormones" and "large amounts...