Word: contrivedness
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In spite of the brave attempt of director Temple and the cast, "The Roaring Girl" is often a tedious bit of theatrical fare. It is too strained, too contrived to be truly entertaining today. Long speeches come and go without conveying much meaning; a good deal of the famed Restoration...
Royal Playhouse (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., Du Mont) opened with a filmed TV drama admittedly "contrived" from Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost. Not admitted on the show was another interesting contrivance: all the filmed dramas scheduled for Royal Playhouse have already been telecast during the past two years...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March 26).
If you think all foreign movies are good, go see this one and be disillusioned. "L'Affaire" is as trite, heavy-handed, and contrived as the worst of domestic productions.
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March 26).