Word: contrivedness
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So "the best apple pie in the U.S. is served in Cripple Creek, Colo.?" This association officially objects to the kudos carelessly flung at Cripple Creek by the wandering Gills [Oct. 31]. Our vice presidents annually proclaim that the apple pie supreme is artistically contrived by the rural housewives of...
Novelist Dennis will give no comfort to those who simply want to cling to familiar values. He laughs at everybody, including ex-Communists and the church. But he writes neither in sorrow nor in anger and achieves not so much a traditional novel as a rather special entertainment, with intellectual...
TV's standbys are the continuing situation series that keep viewers coming back to their sets at the same time week after week. Like politicians, the standbys are often corrupted by long tenure. Last week a batch of new candidates took the platform to win the weekly vote. Navy...
Sales Pitch. Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie...
Whatever the sound was, it was most consciously contrived. From Bing, of course, Frank borrowed the intense care for the lyrics, and a few of those bathtub sonorities the microphone takes so well. From Tommy Dorsey's trombone he learned to bend and smear his notes a little, and...