Word: overplaying
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...novice performers overplay their roles with “look-Ma-I’m-actin’ glee,” while the veterans are simply badly directed. Keitel identifies part of the filmic problem when he yells Travolta that he can’t just come into the music business and expect everyone to fall all over themselves for this former wiseguy, because everyone in this business is a wiseguy...
...afternoon. Those documents didn't solve the puzzle either, but by then the White House hoped that at least no one could accuse the President of hiding anything. "We're going on the offensive on this," says a top official. "The problem with the Democrats is that they always overplay their hand...
...really is the first time we’ve seen perimeter overplay like that to a degree that we couldn’t run our offense,” Sullivan said...
...completed overnight. "These threats are not new," asserts Robert Liscouski, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, who is shuffling several far-flung federal agencies into one National Cyber Security Division (NCSD). He says "digital Pearl Harbor" scenarios are exaggerated: "That's a bit of an overplay for me, and I get paid to worry about this stuff." In October, Amit Yoran, a former vice president of the Internet security firm Symantec, became head of the NCSD, which will attempt to seek and destroy vulnerabilities in cyberspace, issue warnings in real time and foster communication with the vast private sector, which owns...
Democrats know they could overplay their hand if they appear too partisan, a line they came close to crossing last week. House Democratic leaders canceled a meeting with Wilson this week because they realized its politics could potentially backfire on them. "The issue for Democrats is not to make this look like it's partisan," insists a senior Senate Democratic staffer, "because it really is serious...