Word: overlong
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...marvelous miming talents of the black Macunaima, this is totally the director-writer's film, with thanks too to the cameraman and his almost over-ripe color photography. In addition to the censor's cuts, the picture could still do with a little pruning: some of the scenes run overlong, but not one of them is anything but hilarious while it's happening...
...Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players have chosen, tis pity, to do Yeomen straight and uncut, complete with the overwritten first act and the overlong second. What they have done, they have done well, sometimes even brilliantly. If only they had done some editing as well...
Focus on Details. Yet Wrede still shouts "Come out and get cold!" to his actors when they linger overlong in dressing-room trailers. He delights in closeups that capture the frost etched on a ten-day growth of stubble, or the gleam of a runny nose. "The rule in the actual prison camps was to suspend work if it reached 40 below," he says. "My rule is 39 below, not to be worse than Stalin...
...time when other countries do not live in the clouds but build their economies in the real world and therefore are getting ahead of us still more and more. There is not a single friendly gathering at which this would not be discussed. After all, everyone knows that overlong collective self-deception leads inevitably to catastrophe. In all of Russia there is talk about it. And now-your letter...
Whiteside documents a shocking chronology. It includes private (but not Pentagon or Food and Drug Administration) testing of the chemical. He cities overlong suppression of crucial reports and in their wake othcial hedging. Manufacturers of the chemical have tried to flaunt the portents of misery. They say testing may have been too narrow or chemical used in tests impure. They dodge horrible implications. Whiteside quotes "one eminent biologist" who has studied the laboratory test data: "if the effects on experimental animals are applicable to people it's a very sad and serious situation...