Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Lippincott has apparently seized this purpose as an alibi in the continuing controversy over the legitimacy of Rorvik's story. A publisher's note falls short of backing up the author and concludes that the book "will stimulate interest and debate on issues of the utmost significance for our...
Cicely Tyson's performance as Sweets lacks depth. She perpetually lapses into hysterics and cannot solidify her feelings towards both husband and son. Tyson appears unaccustomed to this type of characterization, and her presentation suffers in that it seems contrived at times.
WHILE THE ACSR CONTINUES only to call for still further study, South African blacks each day face arbitrary arrest, torture, poverty-level wages and the complete and systematic denial of fundamental civil and political liberties. Meanwhile the white supremacist South African minority, under the tutelage of the reprehensive Vorster government...
The major weakness of the production, however, lies in the directors' apparent inability to decide whether to play up or defuse the melodrama written into Ten Little Indians. Even allowing for what seemed to be a fairly lighthearted audience, the amount of laughter punctuating some of the most serious scenes...
The family eventually wound up in California, where they lived in towns all up and down the southern coast. Warren had a music teacher who contrived to introduce the young student to Stravinsky (an album autographed by the master is Warren's "most prized possession"). But the influence of...