Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nashville. We're still in that dry season before the new movies premiere, so it's a good week to catch anything you may have missed the last couple of months while you were browning yourself on the Cote d'Azur or wherever. Altman's latest is definitely worth your...
Levitas also strongly feels that Congress gives itself far too many recesses and vacations at a time when there are pressing problems to be solved. "If we want to restore the confidence of people in government, we've got to stop that." As he roamed his district, Levitas also...
ON COLLEGE RULES. The discipline of colleges and universities is . . . contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters.
Time to Relax. "There is a ready cheerfulness," Stewart cables, "quite distinct from Japanese reserve or Chinese reticence. Koreans are open, forthcoming and demanding. And while they tear down and rebuild, they also live comfortably among the signs and customs of 2,000 years. The grounds of Seoul's...
I think the Mayaguez incident was contrived to prove we are still a superpower in the Pacific. The political gains from the action outweigh the possible losses, but it is like limburger cheese: it is good, but it smells.