Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, Time After Time milks to the utmost Wells' reaction to the marvels of modern technology--planes, cars, and see-through jeans. But the well-constructed script doesn't overdo his future shock: after several funny incidents, Meyer shifts into the love story. From there, tension builds up again, as the Ripper resumes his old slice-and-dice tricks, but the laughs periodically resurface as Wells does battle with telephones and electric toothbrushes...
...overshadowed by the prevailing lunacy, gives a coy and engaging performance. Kean has a stunning voice which she displays in a solo called "Glitter and Be Gay." Her operatic fireworks brought a two-minute ovation. Kean's acting is almost as good as her voice, though she tends to overdo the fluffy-headed childishness of the gold-digging Cunegonde...
OTHER performances show slightly less breadth of character but serve adequately to evoke a single, focused personality. While Anne Ames tends to overdo her portrayal of the salacious socialite Lady Utterword, she successfully represents the haughty conservatism of the old English upper class. Doug Kruse's Mazzini Dunn evinces the innocence and naivete of a man taken in by Mangan but fails to provide the minimal amount of dynamism necessary to cast him as the idealistic political orator for the revolutionary movement...
Other members of bench and bar fear that judges might overdo in their zeal to push a case along. "It's a tough balancing act," says John Frank, co-chairman of the National Conference on Discovery. "You don't want to freeze the issues too soon. Take class actions. Generally speaking, the class has been hurt, but they don't know what happened. All they know is that they've been wronged. So that's all they claim, and then they use discovery to build their case. If you don't have liberal discovery...
This is not a perfect world, it is not an open world, it is a world in which we must balance our idealism and our realism in international affairs. We must be sure that the check of accountability is there, so that we do not overdo our realism. We must ensure that the check of accountability is made sufficiently flexible, however, that we do not overdo our idealism. As I say to you, we are not there, yet; we are moving strongly in the right direction...