Word: contrivedness
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Close to 1,000,000 copies of Segal's hardcover book are in print. Love Story is still number one on the bestseller list?while a 95¢ edition is the top-selling paperback. Now comes the celluloid version, manipulating audiences with contrived bathos. Let's see . . . if just the people...
Given such grossness, why should Little Big Man be counted as a rambunctious triumph? Because in its 360° scope of slaughter and laughter, the film has contrived to lampoon, revere or revile the length and breadth of the entire frontier. On the trek, it demonstrates inconsistencies and errata. For...
We talked of getting back to the land, too. For many of us, a form of nostalgia even more blatantly contrived. For what did we know of the traditions of working the soil? A weekend sunk into the Woodstock mud was about the best we could manage.
The Democrats have been hobbled in their anti-Agnew campaigning by a lack of prominent national figures not preoccupied with their own reelection, but they have answered fire on occasion. Sargent Shriver labeled Agnew "this nation's great divider," and the venerable John McCormack, who is about to retire...
Sir: One does not have to be an effete snob, a nattering nabob, or even a Democrat to be thoroughly offended by the contrived, consciously catchy mixed metaphors daily being flung at us by Spiro Agnew [Sept. 21]. One gets the impression that this buffoon is just discovering his power...