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...there is any department for which this motion picture may take honors, it is the acting of Gloria Swanson. She plays the part of a forgotten silent screen star whose desire to regain her former glory drives her insane. Although the script requires Miss Swanson to overdo a part which by its very nature demands overacting, her portrayal is excellent...
...pilots took off with dry ice to knock down fleecy clouds. They did not knock down much rain. For one thing, they often picked on the wrong clouds, e.g., the stratiform (layerlike) clouds, which unless very thick do not contain enough moisture to matter. And they were inclined to overdo, choking the clouds with too much dry ice. A piece of dry ice falling through a supercooled cloud creates enormous numbers of ice nuclei. Too many falling pieces of dry ice create too many nuclei; they compete fiercely for the water in the cloud, but there isn't enough...
Inundated by the commercial flood, Boyd promises: "We aren't going to overdo it. We'll just keep throwing wood on the fire." But he has endorsed so many products (from bedspreads to pocketknives) that he can't always keep them straight. Of his success Boyd says: "We don't think it's phenomenal. Years ago, a fellow got an idea to build a bridge across San Francisco Bay. People told him he was nuts. One morning we looked up and traffic was going across. Hopalong Cassidy was merely an idea that took 13 years...
...exaggerated mincing steps, her voice that goes suddenly Dixie and suddenly husky, and her simultaneous suggestion that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and steel bars would bend in her hands, she is not so much a broad caricature as a pure original. She is forced to overdo the whole thing, but in such individual numbers as A Little Girl from Little Rock it richly pays...
...follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic symptoms occur. Then the body's glandular forces go to work, building up the blood sugar. In such circumstances they overdo the job: soon, there is again too much sugar in the blood, and many physicians are likely to order more insulin -thus completing the vicious circle...