Word: contrivedness
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Keniston's record (A.B. magnacum laude '51, Junior Fellow 1956-60) suggests a fairly high degree of commitment. But the composite uncommitted anti-hero of the first part of the book--Inburn, an American Ishmael--is clearly a hero to Keniston. Like Inburn, Keniston is critical of American society, but...
Towards the end of Soft Skin, Pierre must make an extremely essential phone call. Just at that point a silly looking blond captures the phone booth and Pierre waits impatiently while she completes her call. Director Francois Truffaut has chosen a device so obviously contrived that your entire build-up...
To old Elysée hands, De Gaulle himself looked sunken-eyed and tired, and atypically muffed some of the lines in his carefully memorized discourse. But as usual, le grand Charles contrived to have the last laugh. "Personal power?" he asked at conference's end, challenging critics who...
Yet, says Author Troebst, in the event of catastrophe, nothing is so important for survival as native wit and will. He recalls the case of Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben, who ingeniously contrived to survive for 50 days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada...
Casanova-'70 is a marathon farce about impotence and fetishism, clumsily contrived to challenge the artistry of Marcello Mastroianni, who manages to outrun his vehicle at nearly every turn. As an Italian army major rather loosely attached to NATO, Mastroianni embarks on a series of amorous bivouacs, only to...