Word: overgrown
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...then stow away to the States. And co-opting like crazy from the start, Hollywood made foreigners its greatest stars: Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, Cary Grant and Greta Garbo. So it is only fitting that the torchbearer, the sword wielder, the giant of American movies, should be an overgrown Austrian with a face and body out of a superhero comic...
Right now, Lauderdale's favorite musical works include Chopin's nooturnes, Janacek's "On the Overgrown Path," and Delibes' opera "Lakme...
...Bolivar passes through corrupting cities and pestilential villages on the way to retirement, his dream of "one nation, free and unified, from Mexico to Cape Horn," collapses as surely as his consumptive lungs. Fever inspires delirious memories of battlefield victories and bedroom intrigues. Ideals, glory, vitality and hope are overgrown by failures...
...FOOLS. Director Louis Malle wanted to make a bright, black comedy of a provincial French family driven to paranoia by the student uprisings of May 1968. Instead, he offers a long weekend with some spoiled overgrown children...
...than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided -- for an overgrown work ethic has turned its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure. Enveloped in superlatives, West Germany has emerged as one of the world's most affluent societies: the nation with the largest trade surplus; the greatest per capita concentration of high- performance automobiles; the best wages for the shortest work...