Word: overplayed
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...James Valentine are entrusted two small roles. As Hermia's father Egeus, he has been directed to overplay disastrously by means of a wheezing delivery. A little of this goes a long way, but he turns the theatre for a while into a vertiable asthma clinic. He also turns Philostrate, master of the revels, into an amusingly effete redhead...
...James Valentine are entrusted two small roles. As Hermia's father Egeus, he has been directed to overplay disastrously by means of a wheezing delivery. A little of this goes a long way, but he turns the theatre for a while into a vertiable asthma clinic. He also turns Philostrate, master of the revels, into an amusingly effete redhead...
Warhol's ironic attitude conveys to us that he is above the level of everything he films. In The Chelsea Girls, Warhol shows a condescending attitude todard his characters, illustrated by his willingness to let them overplay and caricature themselves. That is why the camera repeatedly zooms in on the jiggling breasts of the fat lesbian while she phones-in her order for 300 caps of acid. In her way, she's very funny. Warhol lets you enjoy her as long as you give him the credit for seeing her first...
...request for secrecy was understandable, for Crepin's successor as NATO's top operational commander was a former German panzer officer, General Johann Adolf Count von Kielmansegg, 59. Equally understandable was German reluctance to overplay the fact that Bonn's 400,000-man Bundeswehr looms even larger than before in the alliance's military structure...
Fielding displays a spurious heartiness that can be depressing, and occasionally he may overplay the nursemaid bit. But the heart of Fielding's guidebook is his personal advice on where to eat, sleep, drink and be merry. It is current (this year's book contains 125,000 lines of revisions), caustic, and in reliable taste. Maxim's (ranked by Michelin as one of France's twelve*** restaurants) has been off Fielding's list since the death of Maitre d'hótel Albert Blaser in 1959, and he attacks Chez Denis (*) for serving...