Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These ultraserious, touchy-feely, namby-pamby pleas for unity are not my style--I've always been abrasive, sarcastic, rhetorically overwrought and damn proud of it. But race relations will be our generation's defining issue. Somehow, the subject does not seem the slightest bit funny to me. And anyone who sat in Sanders Theatre that icy February night would agree...
...raped and murdered. The sleazebag is acquitted on an insanity defense so ludicrous that the mental institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because of Mills, who agonizes beautifully, down to her last unkempt strand of hair...
...Electric Love Hog's musical ingenuity is surpassed only by the heavy emotional quality and expressiveness of their lyrics. The third track, "I Feel like Steve," features and the following overwrought diatribe: Die! You little motherfuckers die you never will learn/ Fry! With your small brain your freedom will burn/ Lie! like another before you'll never be yourself/ Die! You little motherfuckers die right...
...season opener -- in which Mom tries to greet new neighbors, rent out a room, fend off a suitor and keep the washer and dryer from being repossessed -- is a bit too hectic and overwrought. But the family is believable, and Olivia Burnette is totally winning as Dorothy Jane. With a voice that cracks charmingly at the high end, she can take a routine wisecrack ("They're just an unsuspecting, innocent family. Please don't turn into the Welcome Wagon from hell") and make it a cry of adolescent anguish. A TV kid whose jokes are rooted in real feelings...
...shall not go into the essence of his charges -- something in all this may have corresponded to the truth; something was a figment of his imagination, the result of overwrought suspicions. But that is what he really believed...