Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Deer Hunter. The star of the lineup and probably the best movie of the year, The Deer Hunter, fully deserves to win the nine academy awards for which it has been nominated. The politics are terrible--Hollywood will never really deal with the ultimate horror of what America did...
Even to scientists of the day, these theories seemed patchwork: they dealt with nagging questions, but in an artificial and contrived way. Yet they contained seeds of truth. Science was groping toward the answer to the ether dilemma and the limitations of Newtonian physics. And even without Einstein, someone eventually...
For all that, sloganeering is far from going out of style. The slogan is, after all, probably the best people mover this side of earthquakes, court orders and guns. A first-rate slogan is potent indeed when properly contrived. It becomes as easy to remember as it is hard to...
Hesse knew that he was "by no stretch of the imagination a storyteller." The fragmented 20th century, he thought, had destroyed the common cultural ground a writer needs to share with his audience. So he fabricated a sweeping drama of self-regard, of fictive autobiography and moral essay. Often, as...
And so Hollywood keeps churning out '50s movies, almost guaranteed successes, which don't have much of any connection to the actual decade. Chubby Checker still plugs the hits he made 25 years ago, and the new Mickey Mouse Club has a whole new generation of Mousketeers on the march...