Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gridders used a set they'd never run before on the McGlone touchdown, and it completely baffled an already overwrought William and Mary defense. The coverage broke down, and McGlone gathered in Buckley's pass and rambled into the endzone, untouched...
...show any emotions--cold WASP bitch--but she doesn't even evince any humanity. So she drifts through the movie like a white zombie. When her big scene comes at the end (Sutherland has just told her he no longer loves her), she is not so much an emotionally overwrought woman as a dead ringer for Katherine Hepburn at her most palsied...
Willie and Phil contains few brilliant insights into the 1970s, but rather a string of overwrought cliches. He gives us the hedonistic and self-conscious '70s, a time when people seek instant gratification and big bucks. In his movie, Jeannette (Margot Kidder) epitomizes Self-Gratification, admitting "all she wants is to feel good." Phil (Ray Sharkey) plays Big Bucks, the New York photographer gone to California to bring in big money and live in big houses, with glossy pictures of himself hung all over his mansion. The Mystic is Willie (Michael Ontkean). Mazursky, whose last movie, An Unmarried Woman, successfully...
...punk-gothic horror movie about a gang of vicious hot-rodders who terrorize the few survivors of an atomic apocalypse, and who are tracked down and slaughtered by a draconian police force. As a story, the film makes for overwrought, even repellent melodrama. The movie has little feeling for, or interest in, the human idiosyncrasies of its characters; they are glorified stunt men, stock figures in stock cars. But Mad Max is not a "people picture." It is an action movie whose subject is machines, and the sophisticated killing ma chine man could become. The hardware is the star here...
...overwrought economy, the recession comes better late than never