Word: contrivedness
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Shown courting Rachel Wardle as well as being haled to court in the Widow Bardell's breach-of-promise suit, Mr. Pickwick (George Howe) counts for much more on the stage than he does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most...
While calling for further investigation of the matter, Lepeshinskaya contrived a tactful twang of the party line. "Laughter and gaiety also improve health," she said. "Our country is the happiest in the world. Statistics show that the average length of human life in the Soviet Union is the greatest in...
Think! is a lusty, swinging tune; Doodletown Fifers mixes pixy tootlings with brassy blasts. Some of it may sound contrived, but the overall effect is alert, bright fun.
The first play, The Center, suffers from contrived symbolism. Six people in pink union suits prance around the stage admiring an invisible object. These people, I presume can either represent a deluded mob believing in false gods or a group that has found true religion.
In Passage, by Peter Ferber, the third of the stories, is not good at all. It traces briefly and inadequately the situations of a German prisoner of war and the young man whom he conks on the head while making his escape. The flashbacks which outline the German's development...