Word: contrivedness
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3.5 StarsThe Queen wears Cons and rocks out to New Order and the Banshees in Sofia Coppola’s lavish, though perhaps excessively opulent, re-envisioning of one of history’s most infamous monarchs. Inspired by Antonia Fraser’s somewhat controversial biography, Coppola�...
Two Starbucks, a pair of Dunkin’s and even the venerable Peet’s do not, sadly, an ideal coffee shop make in Harvard Square. The cozy interior at Starbucks is too contrived; Dunkin’s plastic tables don’t provide the appropriately lofty...
The U.S. state department no longer claims Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan "endorsed or espoused terrorist activity." So why won't it restore the U.S. visa Ramadan, a Swiss national, was stripped of in 2004 on those grounds? Since giving up the Notre Dame teaching position that visa was intended[an...
The U.S. started imposing conditions and measures simply to crush the revolution: subversion, dirty wars, mercenary invasions, assassination plots against us. I have an Olympic record in that regard, and I should be awarded a medal because there is no individual against whom so many assassination plots have been contrived...
LOS ANGELES—Times Square makes some think of a seedy part of town from days gone by. Others think of towering buildings and blinding lights. I think of a chance event that renewed my faith in the kindness of others. Three weeks ago I embarked on a trip...