Word: overreaching
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...struggle in composing one's ad is to be distinctive and relentlessly self-confident. What woman could resist the "rugged rascal with masculine determined sensual viewpoint"? An ad should not overreach, however, like the woman who began: "WANTED: One Greek god of refined caliber...
Whether it is "better balance" or overreach, the court has been tilting decidedly toward the prosecution, especially in search cases. That trend continued last week, prompting Justice John Paul Stevens to decry the majority's "voracious appetite for judicial activism ... at least when it comes to restricting the constitutional rights of the citizen." In a Virginia case, the court found last week that prison inmates are not protected by the Fourth Amendment. Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for a 5-to-4 majority, held that an inmate had no right to challenge cell searches. "The recognition of privacy rights...
When an artist essays a big subject, he tends to overreach: Longobardi's images, inspired by the catastrophic recent earthquakes in Naples, are too wispy and facile to convey more than a veiled pathos, except for one large painting of a skew-eyed lion interrupted in his mauling of a woman by a fountain toppling behind him. Altogether too much of the exhibition is pulpy with triviality. Ontani, who dresses in historical costume or mythological nudity and has himself photographed (not only as Dante, but as Christopher Columbus, Don Giovanni and even Leda), is a natural clown...
White's technology often seems creaky, partly because he was a pioneer. Modern sci-fi doomsdayers would never predict the end of the world from an excess of radio waves, or have radial-engine Curtiss Condor transports symbolize the overreach of the air age. Even so, White was always among the first to discern the now familiar signs and portents: ecological disturbances, the decline of various species, the discovery that last year's medical boons may lead to tomorrow's degenerative diseases, the horrors of a mindless but ubiquitous visual press, and the debilitating result of trying...
...Lasky's book has any value, it is in raising a number of serious and worthwhile questions: To what extent did past Presidents overreach their authority? Were their violations in any way comparable to the excesses of Nixon? Did much of the U.S. press judge Nixon by a tougher standard than it had applied to his predecessors...