Word: hyper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safe. Now think of the family. Okay, now just check the bomb holders-in good working order (You're carrying bombs?) Yah napalm all the stuff, but mostly big super hyper hydrogen bombs-(Look Craig, I say the speed is okay, but I don't know about the bomb stuff)-I'm a good guy, see. Now, bomb hatches okay. Okay we're off. He signals to guys out in front to take the blocks away from the wheels-another little V. a little flick...
Romulus is the last emperor of Rome. As a symbol he represents the highest consciousness of the epitome of Roman decadence. His hyper-intellectual views are in opposition to the blind devotion, "pro patria" attitude of his court. He feels obliged to affect Rome's end, because he sees through its facade of greatness. He is a Superman in mind but not in charisma...
...whole thing becomes absurd, of course, and that's just the point. More than any other director alive, Agnes Varda delights in giving an audience her euphoric joy in movie-making. Setting up all these apparent symbols is her slightly less than gentle way of chiding audience for their hyper-serious attitude upon entering the moviehouse...
...Jones. Occasionally he falls as flat as a novice's souffle. He once referred to the trimming of mushroom stems for a steak-kidney-mushroom-and-oyster pie as "a small circumcision." He crimped the edge of a piecrust with a gag-store pair of false teeth. His hyper-Briticisms tend to be overdone...
WHEN the bombing-halt negotiations neared the final stage, Washington officials categorically refused to give interviews and, in some cases, even to take phone calls. For that matter, all but a select few had no firsthand knowledge of the frenetic, hyper-secret maneuverings. Said one participant: "Fewer men are fully clued into these contacts than were involved in the Cuba missile crisis...