Word: contrivedness
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It is the place of the rich, yes, who are so different from you and me; of those who can afford to believe that life is to be comfortable and that the point if not the promise of life is happiness. But the place is somehow too brazen in its...
The Barking Deer isn't a good novel. The completeness of the catastrophe seems a little contrived, and so does a lot of the rest of the plot. The whole book is fairly badly written, with uniformly short, monotonous sentences that often lack verbs. Sometimes this seems to be an...
That was when the group's faculty adviser, H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, decided to run for the Senate as an Independent peace candidate--the first of the 1960s. Tocsin members and other Harvard students formed much of Hughes's campaign staff. At first, things...
But these are small points. There is a more serious problem with Blazing Saddles, aside from the unprofessional direction: Brooks has confused absurdity with humor. This is especially true of the film's end, when the time frame shifts jarringly back to 1974 and the cast runs amok through sound...
The play is like the jam-session of a community: each character playing out his own theme, sometimes getting it on with other players, but always reverting back to the whole group, which, together, sings the main score, "Harlem in the Evening." At times the rhythm is off, the shifts...