Word: overwrought
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...sharp were the financial reverberations set off by Schlesinger's rather overwrought vision of a coming energy crunch that the Administration felt obliged to send forth Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal in the dollar's defense. Before a Senate committee, he cited Schlesinger's remarks about oil and said that this was "clearly the type of thing that causes people to run for gold." (Aides later maintained that Blumenthal had not been commenting on what Schlesinger had said, but on the Iranian situation itself.) Blumenthal forcefully reiterated that the Administration remains committed to maintaining stable market conditions...
...potential titleholder is Saudi Arabian Sheik Mohammad al-Fassi, 23, who spent $2.4 million to purchase a sprawling, 38-room quasi-Palladian palazzo, originally built in 1917 for a local dairy magnate. Some $1.5 million worth of extensive renovations later, his neighbors are agog at what the sheik hath overwrought on the city's Sunset Boulevard...
Spacek lucked into her first movie part-in an overwrought thriller called Prime Cut-just five fast years ago. Before that, her professional experience had amounted to some high school theatricals back home in Quitman, Texas (she failed to qualify for the senior play, however); posing for a perfume ad; and landing a one-line part on a John Lennon-Yoko Ono record album. Prime Cut, which featured Spacek as a piece of hollow-eyed jailbait, did at least manage to get across a little of her country-fresh, city-smudged sensuality. Spacek (the name is Czechoslovakian, and is pronounced...
...usual, many investors are overreacting to what could still be a temporary, if prolonged, lull in business and an overwrought perception of what a Carter Administration might mean for business. Says Newton Zinder, chief economist of E.F. Hutton: "The outlook for the market still appears good, though it is lower than most expectations...
...Shootist is deliberately low-keyed and sometimes affecting. But it is hampered by a sentimental, overwrought script and, finally, by its own reserve. The movie keeps the rigid bearing of a kid trying to sit still at a wake...