Word: overwrought
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...Only Takes Two. Sylvester seldom peddles nightclub scandal, but likes to take a good-natured poke at such cafe society figures as the interior decorator for neurotics who "specializes in furniture made of overwrought iron" and the Sultan's son who "drives a foreign elephant." He is an authority on functional (if fictitious) drinks, e.g., the Mambo cocktail ("two of these and you can't stop shaking"), the Instant cocktail ("two drinks and you have your hangover immediately") and the Do-It-Yourself cocktail ("two of them and no one can help you"). And he has, to date...
Tired and overwrought, the composer falls asleep one day while administering a piano lesson to a rich man's child. He dreams that his pupil's beautiful mother (Martine Carol) is in love with him, and that he is a famous composer. Waking with a start, he hurries home, jumps into bed and starts to dream again...
...JEALOUS LOVER pulls out all the heart throbs in a teary story about a British ballet impresario (James Mason) and a dancer with a weak heart (Moira Shearer). This yarn has all the trappings of high romance: shadowy settings, flickering candlelight, crashing music and overwrought passions. But its poetry is buried beneath a heavy load of prosaic moviemaking...
...burdened. If not successful, Sunday Breakfast is generally interesting and fitfully touching. One big difficulty is that it deals with a condition rather than a specific situation, and can only grind away at what is quickly apparent and largely unalterable. Themselves beset by their material, the authors get as overwrought as their characters; they lose perspective about something that, treated more casually, might seem more heartbreaking. But however uneven, Sunday Breakfast is at least not slick...
Teachers were willing to admit that the tests could winnow out the bright and the quick. But they still did not pick out the hard-working or the talented. They gave no quarter to the late bloomers, made no allowances for children who happened to be overwrought during the exam. Cried one parent last week: "The test gets the child so worked up. My Patricia went out of the house white as a sheet, and couldn't eat any breakfast." Added another: "It's terrible to think that what a boy does at eleven will govern his whole...