Word: overlong
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...Education or Sport or Press--a method of organizing the week's news that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce had invented roughly 40 years before. In the jacket copy of my novel, I'd acknowledged that I was the newsmagazine floater referred to as having tried "to escape an overlong stay in the Religion section by writing 'alleged' in front of any historically questionable religious event...
...Woody's mouth, nor does tiresome prostitute humor ("No, no. Hit me, then the blowjob"). Richard Benjamin having sex with Julia Louis-Drey-fus in front of a blind woman isn't funny, nor does it provide the viewer with any insights into the film's characters. Overlong vignettes about murderous, octogenarian Jewish cannibals are not funny, and Woody certainly could have communicated his character's conflicted feelings regarding his religion in a classier (or at least funnier...
Sellars says his ambition is "to have this piece be the spring show in every high school in America." It will need some reworking first-not just character reassessment, but pruning in the overlong first act and fleshing out of the second. Even then, with a female trio delivering such lines as "The pen on the pillow of sperm/ The penis stretched out for Venus," it's doubtful that Ceiling/Sky will replace Brigadoon anytime soon...
...that follows begins with several yards of authentic- sounding , cynical maneuvering in the sleazy process of jury selection and ends, hundreds of pages later, with the question of who actually plugged Richie still disturbingly unresolved. Chiefly because of its villain, the novel is a chilling success. It is also overlong by half and lumbered with a few more plot elements than it needs -- most notably a political feud involving the accused would-be Senator. But the author's characterizations are tough and believable, and his sentences, which tended to wander through purple patches in his first novels, now are spare...
...that Sheik Rahman is in custody, the joke could be over. Or, if the government continues its blundering, Rahman's incarceration could signal the beginning of the third act of this already overlong comedy. There is no doubt that the case has such potential. Though Rahman is wanted in Egypt for inciting a violent anti-government demonstration, the Egyptians haven't seemed eager to take him back...