Word: contrivedness
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I have nothing against “Us Weekly” magazine. I mean, who doesn’t love to skim its pages for gritty gossip and fashionable celeb photos? But when it comes to a biography of the literary heroes of Transcendentalism, I just can’t...
Yet there's no shortage of Manning haters. Why? Start with the TV spots' saturation. "You know he did something to your favorite team," says Spikes, understanding, though not agreeing with, the backlash against the ads, "and then you have to look at him after every commercial break." Some fans...
Then add to a Harvard student life the Harvard Faculty, those souls who’ve spent their lives in this wildly diverse environment. For 30-odd years, young learners have been fed into the Core Curriculum’s crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real...
That’s why I didn’t really know how I felt about the whole “skulls” trend. Ever since last fall, when high fashion debuted a renewed fascination with the gothic, skulls have been the print of choice for accessories everywhere. Sienna...
It is a testament to Messud’s facility as a writer that when the book suddenly becomes a Sept. 11 novel, more than two-thirds of the way through, it does not feel contrived in the least.