Word: overexplicit
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...never was - a great play, but it's a terrific piece of theater. On one level, it's a straightforward mystery, not whodunit but why; on another, a battle of wits between psychiatrist and patient. But it doesn't take long to ferret out Shaffer's sometimes overexplicit theme - that old chestnut about the "insane" being more authentically alive than those of us leading ordered, conformist, "normal" lives. "The boy has created out of his drab existence a passion more ferocious than any I have known in any second of my life," says Dr. Dysart. "That's what his stare...
Review: With overexplicit lyrics and an unmelodic backing track, it's the Super Bowl Shuffle of antiwar songs [1 peace sign...
...beastie boys In a World Gone Mad Available at: Beastieboys.com Sample lyric: "We need health care more than going to war/ You think it's democracy they're fighting for?" Review: With overexplicit lyrics and an unmelodic backing track, it's the Super Bowl Shuffle of antiwar songs...
...sores of the soul, then dismissing then in a brisk and cheerful way--all of these are convincing reasons why a seeming model of sanity and success should suddenly break. But Bergman has demonstrated more effective ways of revealing this. The viewer feels so insulted and manipulated by the overexplicit technique of this dream-sequence that he is almost too preoccupied to concentrate on the unfolding story of Jenny's breakdown...
...character of the Chinese remains as opaque as egg foo yung to him, the major handles his command well enough. When a bridge must be blown up he blows it, although the action strands thousands of refugees. Eventually the girl leaves him, though she loves him. In an overexplicit curtain speech, Stewart says contritely that he has learned the bitter lesson of power...