Word: overdo
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...already the first, and potentially the second, so the eternal matchup of gore and guile doesn't just occupy him outwardly, it swirls inside him as well. Modern moviemakers are good at capturing the choreography of fights -- they understand the Apache dance. But in their Dolby deafness they overdo the supersonic bashing and skip one of the crucial attractions: the missing. Making a man miss is the art. Fundamentally, boxers are elusive. They vanish one moment, reappear the next, rolling around the ring like the smoke in the light...
Similarly, Dunaway's Wanda is a genuinely convincing waste case. She also manages the difficult feat of justifying Henry's initial impression of her as "some kind of distressed goddess." She doesn't overdo her star quality, either, avoiding the seductive trap of a 1940s melodrama performance. Even lines like "We're all in hell. And the madhouses are the only places where people know they're in hell" aren't too offensive coming from her--she has a sincerely manic edge to her that justifies her triteness...
Moving easily between hostility and flirtatiousness, Grad and Martin-Smith achieve a fine rapport as well as a credible relationship. Furthermore, they never exaggerate their Southern accents or overdo the comic antics...
Sometimes even the most ossified policy can break down under new pressures. In April, Dean Spence announced a long overdo reform in Harvard's practice of passing over its own junior professors for tenure in favor of world class heavyweights. Three problems motivated the change. First, the traditional tenure policy has been yielding fewer and fewer top academic guns eager for the opportunity of supping at the Faculty Club and purchasing overpriced Boston real estate. Second, Harvard has become a junior faculty farm team for other universities, providing them top tenurable scholars who will often prefer to stay put when...
...women from Laos who now live in St. Paul form a support group: "If you don't produce income, it seems like you're losing control of your family. The men sometimes felt the women had too much freedom. In the group we say to the women, 'Don't overdo it; use freedom wisely...