Word: contrivedness
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Anticipating a different kind of carnival, American diplomats in Moscow boarded up the embassy's ground-floor windows. A few hours later, 200 Russian students gathered before the building waving placards and shouting "Cuba yes, Yankee No!" Bottles of purple ink were hurled against the embassy wall before 50...
If Our Man Higgins seems a bit of a reach, it is rivaled by some of the most frantically contrived situations in the history of situation comedies. The hero of NBC's Don't Call Me Charlie is a young, handsome, naive, lovable veterinarian named Judson McKay (Josh...
Alone But Linked. Though few men could catch so well the character of an individual, Hals was also the master of the group portrait. With him, all the contrived clumsiness of his predecessors vanished. His Banquet of Officers of the St. Joris-Doelen is so composed that while each man...
For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." Kennedy categorized the myths: Big Government. "Let us take first the question of the size and shape of Government. The myth is here that Government is...
"Actually, it's not so much what Mrs. Kennedy is buying as the thinking behind it that makes the news. She stands for the simple, easy, sportswear type of fashions against the contrived kind. She stands for the Givenchy look and all its interpretations over here, as against the...