Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, professional camera crews had been filming nearly every facet of the dinner for use in Jackson's unusual, slickly contrived announcement last week of his candidacy for the presidency. The five-minute documentary, created for Jackson by Producer David Wolper at a total cost of $30,000 (including...
Most of the frantic fun of the evening came from watching the backstage counterpart to these on stage strategy "huddles," which last about a minute during an interlude of piano improves. I knew vaguely what I was in for from the start: while one or more of the actors spin...
Still Flanagan's vague description of the alleged manslaughter act is sufficiently linked with abortion-related issues that a conviction would inevitably intimidate those who perform abortion operations and could place severe legal restrictions on the practice. Such an extreme definition of birth could possibly lead to other, equally-contrived...
The defense attorney implied that Ward had employed standards of measurement in interpreting figures from the autopsy that would yield a contrived and exaggerated estimate of the age of the fetus.
Meantime, the AEC launched its own probe of working conditions at the plant. The commission's records showed that since Kerr-McGee started its plutonium operations in 1970, 17 safety lapses-in which 73 employees were contaminated-had been reported. The union produced a list of 39 additional allegations...