Word: contrivedness
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Valdei Is Coming offers little besides its star. Continual editorials about racism give the film contrived relevance. Edwin Sherin's direction may best be described as functional: the members of the cast do not bump into each other. Still, the late Frank Silvera provides a poignant closeup of a...
The problem with most tales of nightshade and magnolia, of course, is the denouement; The Beguiled simply winds down. Siegel and his scriptwriters have contrived a conclusion that is brutal but predictable. Although they paint themselves into a corner and don't quite escape gracefully, it is at least...
The Georgies Awards telecast, a self-congratulatory outing for variety performers contrived for Ed Sullivan, was well ahead in the competition until last week, when the record industry's Grammy Awards show on ABC descended past all previous lows for tedium and tastelessness. But two major contenders for the...
There are other flashes of crisp satire in this collection of essays. In a modern version of the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas, the king's good intentions get lost in a bureaucratic maze. When Parkinson analyzes beards through history and finds them to be a sure indicator of...
So it went on a typical day last week during New York's Second Annual Christmas String Seminar. Sasha Schneider served as a combination guru, godfather and gourmet guide-preaching music to his temporary flock, shepherding them around town, invariably leading them en masse to one of his favorite...