Word: overshadow
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...SOMETHING IS still very wrong with this show--and unfortunately, the play seems to be the problem. All the good acting and careful technical work in the world cannot, after all, overshadow what is basically a mediocre play. Gilroy's work perhaps evokes some of the feeling of the times--the generation gap existed then, too, and the resentment and alienation of a failed marriage certainly didn't spring up in the last decade. This basic theme has been seen so many times before...a male child goes off to war, or what have you, and comes back...
...life, and Americans especially feel that they have done more than their share in giving foreign aid since World War II. It is not, however, a question of altruism. The advanced countries have an urgent self-interest in improving a situation that in a few years may well overshadow any other international issue...
...film is plagued by defects that regrettably overshadow such fine examples of cinema verite filmmaking. The real purposes behind The Forty Day Experience come into question at junctures where the script flirts with the glorification of Ichazo, his religious system and the relevance of all this to interpersonal relationships. One shot shows Ichazo seated amidst the rural setting of a Colorado foothill (complete with a waterfall in background) as a trainee praises him: "Oscar's like a brother who's done it for you. I'm grateful." An alumnus of an asylum describes Arica as "the experience of the positive...
...then the final act. The denouement. The tragic flaw that worked its will to overshadow a strong pressure relief job by McOsker...
...portray the children of the well-off and the rich, and the ones who are running this country. At the same time Coles has published the fourth volume of the Children of Crisis series, Eskimos, Chicanos and Indians, a book he believes the "narcissism of the rich" will overshadow. And, as he leaves his University Health Services office on Holyoke Street, Coles adds that he thinks the book about the nation's underprivileged is "more interesting" than the latter. In fact, Eskimos, Chicanos and Indians is thought-provoking from the view of the outsider, because this...