Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there's not a lot actually coming out, it's just that we get all of it." That's the first thing. The Beatles not only generate enormous energy, but they direct it in a carefully chosen and strictly limited manner so that nothing is wasted. They never overreach and whatever they choose to give us comes out intensely focused, as penetrating and overwhelming as a laser beam...
STUDENT FILMS are getting better, a little better all the time. A twenty-seven minute student film used to mean nothing but nine times as many Universal Truths as a three minute student film. Novice filmmakers have always tended to overreach themselves. Josh Waletzky and his cohorts did not, and the result is a film which makes one point rather well, instead of running after every truism which pops...
...joining Largo's seaworthy French playmate (Claudine Auger) for an amorous exploit down among the corals. "I hope we didn't frighten the fish," he quips afterward, wading ashore. Alas, even subaqueous sex cannot keep the formula entirely fresh. Yet, if Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry. He is hilariously astringent when he drops a limp dancing partner at a nightclubber's ringside table, saying: "D'you mind if my friend sits this...
...trial "dominated by mob violence" (Moore v. Dempsey). Was the Supreme Court wrong in reversing that decision? What about confessions "obtained by brutality or by fraud?" asked the dean. Since 1936, the court has faced 30 such cases -all affirmed by state courts. Did the Supreme Court overreach in overruling them...
Whatever you do, don't overreach...