Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cranston said he is not afraid that his out spokenness on the nuclear issue will overshadow the rest of his platform. "I say enough about other issues, but I think that if we blow ourselves up, other issues won't matter...
...WOULD BE UNFAIR to place any one of William Trevor's novels alongside his collected stories on the reviewer's rostrum; for there is a breadth of scope and achievement in this collection, a complex structure of "development," on compassing many near-perfect stories, that is bound to overshadow the specific range of a single novel. Fools of Fortune, while it is engrossing stuff like virtually everything Trevor writes, takes on too great a task in too little space. ranging over the years 1918 to 1983, including a story of doomed love between an Irishman and his English cousin...
...Warner's version, occult occurrences are almost taken for granted--they appear in almost every scene. But the significance of these scenes is cheapened by Warner's reliance on flashy costumes, anachronistic props, and the original music by Peter Melnick. These external ornaments overshadow the plot, and the three-and-a-half-hour production gathers most of its strength from the attempt to destroy our conceptions of how a Shakespeare play should be performed...
...districts, convinced that Nakasone now had no other choice but to dissolve parliament and call for new elections. For the moment, Nakasone has good reason to put off announcing his decision. With Reagan coming to town, the Japanese leader clearly hopes that his success as an international statesman will overshadow his continuing troubles with the Shadow Shogun...
...focus of this production is on the fluid, intense interactions between characters, and Jennings never lets excessive motions detract from the power of the character's language. In his two productions last year Enemy of the People and The Mother. Jennings let extreme political leftism overshadow the acting. But in this play, Jennings has cast political sentiment aside and concentrated his attentions on accentuating the fineness of the acting...