Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unhappiness to depression. Granted, Clark's role is the least interesting and worst written of the three, providing no clue as to what appeal a law student could find in an alcoholic charlatan cursed with an erratic mystical power. Still, Clark seems unable to penetrate the surface level of overwrought words and emotions, and as I was sitting on a comfy mattress, the only thing keeping my snoozometer above the critical zone was Clark's volume level. To add to the unpleasantness, her accent wanders down from Ireland into Yorkshire and back, with short sidetrips to Scotland, the Home Counties...
...remote. "When you talk about all the Republican scenarios," says one independent G.O.P. strategist, "Haig's is the most improbable." His support in the polls hovers below the 10% range, and he is plagued by an army of negative public impressions. One reason is the lingering recollection of his overwrought performance in the White House briefing room the day Reagan was shot. His quavery assertion that "I am in control here" was an attempt to show that the Government was stable, but it was hardly reassuring to those watching...
...PLAYS are risky business. Instead of being short and well-focused, they often end up with overwrought plots and underdeveloped characters, trying to squeeze all of life's sorrows and tragedies into 45 minutes. The bad one-acts always seem to center on two or three character who reveal their every secret dream and sin at warp speed...
While Allen is not breaking new ground with these episodes, he does manage to capture the humorous and outlandish spirit of the era. The individual vignettes are at least a pleasant release from the overwrought sentimentalism of the family scenes...
...blank-box modernism. It is a nice irony that the small hotel he and his partner, Charles Menefee, 32, designed for a river-bluff site outside Charleston, S.C., is such an unapologetically modernist work. The Middleton Inn, elegant and Miesian in the best senses, is complicated but not overwrought, decorous but not formulaic...