Word: overwhelming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jumping corps should once again be the deepest and most dependable area of the track team. Gus Udo, Jimmy Johnson and versatile Mark Henry are all coming off outstanding indoor seasons and should continue to overwhelm their opponents...
...evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
...evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
Penn and Tesich stuff so many old so many old socks of social issues into this laundry bag of a movie that the odors overwhelm. They drag us through a predictable much of cliches--a drug trip, a terminally ill college roommate--losing fun and movement in the search for "meaning". All the classic themes, the signs of the times, proliferate but they all fall flat...
...course, its effect is the reverse of irony; one cannot have irony without rigor. Instead, it turns into the defensive chumminess that is one of the hallmarks of provincial art-the trade unionism of the In joke. Such longueurs threaten but do not overwhelm the effort to improve coast-to-coast cultural communication. This show is well worth seeing; and it will do a lot to dispel the faint condescension which, in some quarters, still clings to mere clay. -By Robert Hughes