And while we all treasure Dietrich in "Touch of Evil" (1958), where her black-haired, cheroot-smoking Tanya is a pitiless observer to the last ruin of Orson Welles's bloated cop, the performance is close to camp, and utterly removed from the warmth of that 1945 snapshot.
The huge performances and bloated run time are a snug fit for the format.
Nearly expelled from the I.O.C. two years ago, Kim now positions himself as the committee's moral force, seeking to restore Olympic ideals that, he says, have been compromised by bloated size, overcommercialism and performance-enhancing drugs.
Theirs is another show of largely joke-free material, propped-up by frantic physical performances and bloated, absurd characters.
In the bare-bones '50s version, nothing distracts from his performance, certainly no bloated production numbers.
Other key tasks include holding principals and superintendents accountable for their schools' performance, streamlining the bloated bureaucracy at 110 Livingston Street and repairing the city's crumbling and sometimes dangerous school buildings.
Kakutani felt that while the collection of four stories "may lack the depth of emotion and almost photographic clarity of The Sportswriter and Independence Day, it's a way more persuasive performance than the bloated, formulaic third volume, The Lay of the Land.
When Lucien and Kyrill take her out on a nighttime romp through Paris, the trio end up at an operatic performance starring a bloated, fading tenor whose post-performance attention goes straight to Marguerite's head.
A recent series of discouraging economic reports, including low GDP for 2011, bloated unemployment figures, lackluster manufacturing performance, and dwindling consumer spending, as well as the protracted debate over the debt ceiling and the threat of a U.S. credit downgrade, have stirred up a new round of speculation about whether the country might be heading back toward recession.
However, the stock of the once-exalted Vegas residency plummeted somewhat post-Rat Pack, with live entertainment taking a backseat to the thrills of gambling during Vegas's bloated megaresort expansion; a Vegas performance quickly became synonymous with distracted patrons, cheap synthetic carpet, cigarette reek, and opening for a magician.
