Word: contrivedness
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Which is really what this film is all about--a long slow tableau of a beautiful man and a beautiful woman doing beautiful things. But it is contrived, painting a tortured tableau. This is not a fantasy out of Bronte, it's a photo essay out of Penthouse. Jane Seymour...
Since the books could have shown anything from a $1.6-million deficit to a $750,000 surplus, this year's result is a "contrived figure," Melissa D. Gerrity, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, said last week.
Practice is a comedy-romance-farce-drama, a stringing together (better for pearls than for movies) that looks like a bargain but amounts to thinness in all departments (hyphenated-genre films typically try for multiple effects and end up delivering none). But de Broca (King of Hearts, Dear Inspector) overcomes...
Calling the surplus a "contrived figure" because of the loan, Gerrity said the Faculty received only $1.4 million of the $3.7 million it anticipated from the fund drive this year.
The small towns of American reality have been stunningly varied, as Richard Lingeman makes definitively clear in his new history, Small Town America. Lingeman stalks the dream and the reality from colonial days to the present, from Town Builder William Penn's hope for "a green country town, which...