Word: contrivedness
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Michael Cimino thought he was John Ford. Everbody told him he was. His movie was a hit, America, the critics said, was ready to grieve over its tarnished honor and indomitable spirit. Despite its relentlessly bland directorial style, its contrived, overdone script, its torturous three-hour length, The Deer Hunter...
Behan, though, felt that The Hostage seemed contrived. Drawing from the music hall tradition of entertainment, the play includes songs and dances that serve more to keep the audience amused than to accelerate the plot or enhance a theme. In an awkward second act scene, the actors break character, joke...
Clifton C. Garvin Jr., 60. Last year the Business Roundtable tapped the folksy but forceful head of Exxon to replace Thomas Murphy as its chairman and chief public spokesman. That was a surprising move, considering the unpopularity of oil companies, but Garvin had long since proved his ability to defend...
When Marjorie's roommates (Kathy Bates and Peggity Price) arrive, other surprises ensue, some of them contrived and short on logic. What Mastrosimone has achieved is a precarious balance between the man's physical pain and the woman's mental anguish. Ellen Barber's Marjorie moves...
Most basketball arenas save the exercise for the playing surface, but the architects who contrived the IAB about 50 years ago bucked the trend. No, the IAB exercise comes in the getting up there, in the journey skyward. Four flights, past the browning (beyond yellowing) photographs of the 20-3...