Word: overlong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book is overlong--even the paperback will be hungry-man size--but it is easy to see why Faludi couldn't stop writing. Her men have much to say, and in Faludi they found their dream woman: one who listens, and who understands...
...that perhaps was better; entertainers -- and Frankie was arguably the greatest of this century -- are best remembered in action. If you've been clicking or flipping around since you heard the news, you've probably heard it all already. CP has written it already. So let us not croon overlong in this space, and deliver what is CP's raison d'etre...
...Education or Sport or Press--a method of organizing the week's news that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce had invented roughly 40 years before. In the jacket copy of my novel, I'd acknowledged that I was the newsmagazine floater referred to as having tried "to escape an overlong stay in the Religion section by writing 'alleged' in front of any historically questionable religious event...
...Woody's mouth, nor does tiresome prostitute humor ("No, no. Hit me, then the blowjob"). Richard Benjamin having sex with Julia Louis-Drey-fus in front of a blind woman isn't funny, nor does it provide the viewer with any insights into the film's characters. Overlong vignettes about murderous, octogenarian Jewish cannibals are not funny, and Woody certainly could have communicated his character's conflicted feelings regarding his religion in a classier (or at least funnier...
Sellars says his ambition is "to have this piece be the spring show in every high school in America." It will need some reworking first-not just character reassessment, but pruning in the overlong first act and fleshing out of the second. Even then, with a female trio delivering such lines as "The pen on the pillow of sperm/ The penis stretched out for Venus," it's doubtful that Ceiling/Sky will replace Brigadoon anytime soon...