Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This cynicism is best reflected in the album's title track, "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)." Released initially as a single, this cut has been floundering around the middle of the top thirty for a month or so, creating only perfunctory enthusiasm. While I wouldn...
Thus does Waldrep's accident, and others like it, gain a special poignancy. The unsuspecting reader of the sports page is momentarily jarred from his cliched patterns of thought. Tragedy has found him out, even amid the daily barrage of sports scores. The hoopla that surrounds so much of modern...
Somehow it is all too neat, this balancing of the moral books, just as Axel's character is too contrived for the movie to be emotionally gripping. We are too aware of Writer Toback's undigested intellectual debts as well as his rather adolescent romanticizing of his subject...
O'Neill died before he could finish his work, leaving a typescript in its formative stages that somehow found its way into a box of papers sent to the O'Neill collection at Yale. The play is far too long (O'Neill marked over half the original typescript for deletion...
An individual baseball game is suited more for poets than partisans. Because a baseball team plays 162 games, the significance in the final standings of one of them is tiny. But a baseball game, just as it is a more frequent occurrence than a basketball or football match, is a...