Word: overdrawn
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...bring $50,000 home and they say you're overdrawn...
...corporation which, according to the folklore then current, would pounce upon anyone showing the least inclination toward independent thought, word, deed or dress. That folklore, chronicled in books like "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "The Organization Man," and "Life in the Crystal Palace," was, I think, absurdly overdrawn. In any event, I did not encounter the beast...
...Cowboy, and The Day of the Locust has much the same mood of sentimental surrealism. Both films treat rather bizarre subjects in a comfortably slick fashion, so that nothing becomes very real or threatening. All decadence is decorative, all desperation synthetic. The Day of the Locust looks puffy and overdrawn, sounds shrill because it is made with a combination of self-loathing and tenuous moral superiority. This is a movie turned out by the sort of mentality that West was mocking...
...blow to Nixon's efforts to hang onto the hard-core support that would give him the one-third-plus-one vote in the Senate needed to block any effort to remove him from office. Buckley's eloquent statement (see box next page) was overdrawn in describing the terrors of a Senate trial of the President and sugarcoated in its acceptance of the notion that Nixon's Watergate problems were being pursued only by critics to overturn the 1972 election results. But it was a sound assessment of the practical realities of Nixon's current situation...
...young writer good-Mano is 31-to compare him with the likes of Kierkegaard and Evelyn Waugh. Mano is still a writer of more promise than achievement. His strengths are energy, earnestness and a tough intelligence. But he is a stiff writer, not especially imaginative, and his overdrawn characters tend to be mere mouthpieces for ideas...