Word: contrivedness
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It is startling to see how fast and with what authority the Guitar's lessons were absorbed by other artists in Paris, such as Henri Laurens and Archipenko. Laurens's Dish with Grapes (1916-18), with its majestic rotation of painted wood planes around the calm central core...
Such a concept, alas, is not easy to come by. Political commentators have been more preoccupied with contrived presidential images than with actual looks. Some lofty thinkers even feel that the look of a President is of little significance. In reality, a leader's countenance and mien have always...
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...