Word: overdoes
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...tableau vivant, always finding the right arch of leg or arm to drag comedy out of stage direction. Sara Salisbury plays Daisy, the secretary in Berenger's office, and she looks like a secretary, which is some achievement in Cambridge. Miss Salisbury has the good sense not to overdo her girlishness and pucker-pout...
...night before, it's terrible, but just before going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love regularly, I get bad-tempered, my voice gets heavy and my eyes bloodshot. If I do overdo it, however, my high C sharps run the risk of finishing up as C naturals." Tenor Ramon Vinay claims that during one long period of deprivation in South America, his high tenor turned into a deep baritone...
...MILLS B. LANE JR., president of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank: "You know we Americans always overdo things, whether it's an ice cream cone or Scotch and soda. In not too long, we'll be looking for ways to stimulate the economy. The slowdown is beginning already...
...kicks and seldom exerts himself in training. He has no coach. "My principle," explains French Distance Runner Michel Jazy, 29, "is to do nothing contrary to the body. An athlete in shape is like a pregnant woman. One may indulge one's tastes and be sure not to overdo...
...Vice President James Hagerty, who found many a fault with reporters during the years he was President Eisenhower's press secretary, ticked off some new grievances last week. Speaking before the New York State Broadcasters Association in Albany, N.Y., he charged that TV newscasters either "overdo it or lose themselves in a mass of electronic hodgepodge." Recalling all the endless fuss the press made over Ike's illnesses, Hagerty asked whether it was worthwhile, when President Johnson caught the flu, to "flood the air with special programs and breathless bulletins that couldn't help but give...