Word: contrivedness
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One cannot, of course, quibble with Dyer-Bennet's success at mastering his craft. For an age that thrives on contrived noise misnamed music, he insists--successfully--on preserving the integrity of the music he sings and plays.
New York Times's Columnist Arthur Krock: Since many of the reasons given by Senators as outweighing [Strauss's] extraordinary achievements were captious, plainly contrived, palpably the result of political or personal pressure or vindictive, it is not inconceivable the American people will produce a much larger majority...
Love Is My Profession (Raoul J. Levy; Kingsley International) is easily the peep-showiest, cheap-thrillingest of all the Brigitte Bardot pictures-and probably the best. Topnotch Whodunit Writer Georges Simenon furnished the novel (En Cas de Malheur) on which the film is based. Jean Gabin was hired to top...
Laugh Line (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). TV may not be the best of all possible worlds for those far-out explorers, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, but they are canny enough to survive in almost any climate; the show is based on their ad-libbed comments about contrived, oddball...
Dramatically, the film divides in two. Judd and Artie are pictured in their furtive and bumbling friendship--Judd much the more attractive of the two, because of his curious morality of anti-morality ("I tell you evil is beautiful"). Judd becomes a kind of ignoble Hamlet, a boy of "superior...