Word: contrivedness
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But there were serious flaws in the way conductor Leo Collins used this magnificent choral instrument. Saturday's concert was just short of exciting because Collins' choice of tempos and articulation made the cantatas a little contrived, a little fussy.
Novelist Gilbert is a journalist who won't admit it. The contrived, never-say-die plot of The Beautiful Life is simply a device to move his characters through the inner circle. Exclusive restaurants and discotheques, the Plaza, "molto snob" boutiques and hair salons, Parke-Bernet, Sutton Place, a round...
Died. J. Frank Duryea, 97, co-designer with his brother Charles of the U.S.'s first gasoline-powered automobile, who in 1893 contrived a horseless carriage powered by a single-cylinder engine hooked up to the wheels by a leather belt, bucked and bumped 200 ft. down the street...
No single facet of Goat Island particularly stands out: the performances are individually erratic; the set is unduly drab and natural -- particularly for such a non-theatre as Christ Church where a stylized setting would have been much more appropriate; the blocking is effective at times, and contrived at others...
Thus, with a Cummingsesque jingle, Designer-Philosopher R. Buclcminster Fuller, 70, set out to explain to the Saturday Review all that he had learned during his years since birth. The magazine had the temerity to ask Bucky to keep it down to 5,000 words-a paralyzing limitation for a...