Word: contrivedness
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Borg took the first match, 6-0, 6-4, a tidy massacre that required merely 68 minutes to complete. McEnroe served poorly and seemed incapable of trading ground strokes with Borg, who played faultlessly. After the match, McEnroe said at courtside, "I hope everyone comes out again tomorrow because I...
In 1978, Micnael Cimino presented his "contemporary" epic of men at war--in this case, the Vietnam War--and, initially, it received universally enthusiastic reviews. Most critics ignored the film's contrived, overdone script and Cimino's bland direction, and praised The Deer Hunter for its emotional power. But, after...
Dan's first album, Can't Buy a Thrill(1972), held some promise of transcending everyday pop. But the Latin beat of "Do It Again," the tight guitar work on "Reeling in the Years," seems, in retrospect, contrived and commercial. Now, the band members change from cut to cut, but...
Abby celebrated her 25th anniversary last week. As usual, Sister Ann beat her to the punch, marking her own silver anniversary last October in Chicago. It was only the latest chapter in the rivalry -sometimes bitter-that started 62 years ago on the Fourth of July, when Landers contrived to...
YES, MON ONCLE is academic in the extreme, but, miraculously, it's never boring once the action gets started. The film-makers' mixed blessing of cleverness saves the movie from the clutches of dullness and banality. Cleverness is Mon Oncle's dominant characteristic, but in cinema--as in any other...