Word: contrivedness
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Lundy's fanciful roofs have now brought him commissions for a ski resort in New Mexico, a school in Westport, Conn., a Unitarian church in Fairfield County, Conn. But more than commissions and prizes (his $80,000 St. Paul's Lutheran Church just got an Award of Merit...
Contrived Melodrama. Some echoes of the earlier books are intentional, but Clea has about it a curious air of repeated conversations, slapdash structure, and contrived melodrama. The cruel Memlik Pasha, who in Mountolive "never smiled," is brought onstage in Clea "smiling gently." A girl named Fosca is introduced only so...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government.
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. The late Sergei Eisenstein's contrived but lush portrait of a power-mad paranoiac, made while Stalin was still alive but only recently released by the Russian government.
Five Finger Exercise. Despite contrived moments and false notes, John Gielgud's eloquent direction and Peter Shaffer's sharp dialogue give atmosphere and tension to this play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) about an English family and the young German tutor who unwittingly feeds the fire of...