Word: contrivedness
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One might go further and say, as Roger Rosenblatt has suggested, that the book is hollow because Styron doesn't understand evil. Certainly, Styron wanted to write a book about evil; the ambition is palpable in the novel's heft. But I suspect it was an intellectual desire, not a...
The findings of the TIME survey did not register much hope that these problems will soon be solved. Those questioned had even less faith in Congress than in the President to solve the energy problem. Despite the preachings of the Carter Administration, 63% said the recent gasoline drought was "exaggerated...
THEIR INNOCENCE was hardly contrived. They knew nothing about folk music, about coffeehouses, about the honest blues. But like all musical scenes, the folk scene had a magnetism, (emanating) perhaps from the "flat pink and charcoal stretch known as the Eisenhower years."
As in much of the rest of the U.S., many Southerners felt the shortage was contrived. Declared a Shell dealer in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "My customers think it's all a ripoff, that the major oil companies are holding back. So do I." Reported Texaco Dealer H.W. Wayne of...
What redeems these stereotypes is the controlled, idiosyncratic performances of a superb supporting cast. Director Siegel (Dirty Harry) never lets an actor go overboard. The same lean quality is visible in his film making. With the help of Bruce Surtees' elegant, metallic-hued cinematography, Siegel makes every point as...