Word: overdid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diaz said, "If it weren't for the other players, this season would have been very little fun." Part of the problem was strategy. "We began by stressing defense, but we just overdid it," Michael Smith said. And Nelson felt the problems began at midfield. "Your halfback line? That's where it's got to begin. I don't think we dominated midfield to a great degree...
Kaye-Martin's portrayal of the master of the house was not masterful, but good--he had the job of portraying the banality of evil in a high-faluting style, but overdid the banality a bit. He rants and demands and insults with all the consummate evil of Bella Lugosi and Martin Bormann fused; Kaye-Martin overplays his role just so much, just so much that despite his overkill in the sexist-megalomaniac-asshole department, the crowd still takes his character seriously, according his work with all of the hisses and spittoons given the villain in any old time movie...
Robert Dole, 54, the Kansas Senator who overdid sarcasm on the stump as Ford's running mate in 1976 (and many people thought he cost the party the election), is now trying to show he has positions that span a bit beyond the predictable right. This year Dole has made 160 speeches outside Washington and has churned out dozens of statements twitting the Administration; last week he denounced moves for closer ties between the U.S. and Cuba. Sensing an opportunity to one-up Baker on Panama, Dole may try to lead the antitreaty forces in the Senate...
...Epstein was the only actor in the entire cast to successfully master the art of speaking verse on stage and achieving a Shakespearean voice. Although at all times he was eloquent, Epstein, in a proper attempt to make Shylock a genuine foreigner in the midst of the Venetian oligarchy, overdid his accent to the point where--combined with the wheezing and spluttering of old age--it obscured his lines. In a sense Epstein's commanding talent determined the production's orientation. As the only member of the cast who rose above the congenital American inability to speak Shakespeare, Epstein couldn...
When blonde Marjorie Wallace, 20, of Indiana became the first American to win the "Miss World" title last November, she pledged to remain single for a year and agreed to tour the world promoting the virtues of single womanhood. In no time, however, Marjorie overdid it. Her love life sizzled into the headlines: Singer Tom Jones was photographed giving her a soulful kiss, Millionaire Peter Revson was seen squiring her around, and last month, after a tiff, Britain's swinging Soccer Star George Best allegedly broke into Marjorie's London apartment and stole her passport, checkbook, correspondence, liquor...