Word: contrivedness
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Intimate Lunches. Provoked, Mrs. Exner called a press conference to set the record straight. Said she: "Statements to the effect that I was a 'campaign worker for Kennedy' are entirely contrived. My relationship with Jack Kennedy was of a close personal nature and did not involve conspiratorial shenanigans...
Her drama is composed in free verse with a tendency to impose unnatural breaks in the dialogue. Particularly in "Fire Exit," set in a burlesque house, the language sounds stilted, as though the characters were parodying the contrived and choreographed world of their jobs. She deliberately scatters cliches through the...
Nashville. We're still in that dry season before the new movies premiere, so it's a good week to catch anything you may have missed the last couple of months while you were browning yourself on the Cote d'Azur or wherever. Altman's latest is definitely worth your...
Levitas also strongly feels that Congress gives itself far too many recesses and vacations at a time when there are pressing problems to be solved. "If we want to restore the confidence of people in government, we've got to stop that." As he roamed his district, Levitas also...
ON COLLEGE RULES. The discipline of colleges and universities is . . . contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters.