Word: oversold
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...starting with the release of Lost Horizon next spring. Currently, audiences in New York City and Los Angeles can see her in a remarkable Swedish epic called The Emigrants (see ESSAY). Hundreds of new stars have burst onto U.S. screens before, of course, many of them producers' playmates, oversold or overaged stage ingenues, voices without bodies, bodies without voices, paper dolls cut out of publicity releases, inflatable, rubberized sex bombs. Liv is something different. Lost Horizon Producer Ross Hunter says, with characteristic modesty: "As soon as I met her I knew that if she would let me I could...
...country's governmental units follow their present course, they will respond partly by further raising some taxes, partly by rejecting some badly needed programs, and largely by plunging deeper into debt. That is a self-defeating course. Keynesian economists have oversold the idea that public debt does not hurt because "we owe it to ourselves." Interest on the debt?currently $12 billion a year for the Federal Government ?devours tax dollars that are urgently needed for other purposes...
...Saigon and Hue were bloodily repulsed. But the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers were able to strike at will all over the country and penetrated Allied lines with ease. This was dramatic evidence that Westmoreland's "success offensive" and his claim of imminent victory had been greatly oversold. The impact of Tet in the press and on TV screens directly challenged the comfortable words from Saigon and Washington...
Critics have accused the movement of everything from Communist-style brainwashing to sedition. Dr. Joseph T. English, formerly head of the Health Services and Mental Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, thinks that it has "been oversold to an unaware public." U.S. Representative John R. Rarick of Louisiana, its most voluble enemy, has filled pages of the Congressional Record with unrestrained rhetoric: "Organized thought control and behavior programming ... a perversion of group therapy that makes healthy minds sick . . . obvious degeneracy...
...recruiter, Father Cyriac Puthenpura, who enlisted at least 500 novices himself, seems to have used his profits for a beneficent purpose: to build the Nirmala Bhavan (Home of the Pure of Heart) Secular Institute for girls in Kerala's Ettumannur district. In his zeal, however, Puthenpura may have oversold his audience. His recruits did not, as he claimed, "live like princesses" in Europe. Like novices everywhere, they had to wash dishes, scrub floors, and perform other menial tasks...