Word: contrivedness
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The artistic aphasia of Yamaide's Nowhere mirrors the contrived nothingness of Martin Creed's The Lights Going On and Off, which won last year's Turner Prize. The Palais de Tokyo's curators seem intent on recreating the buzz that surrounded British conceptualism of the 1990s. But as last...
The live arrangements, courtesy of Scott’s highly talented band Fatback Taffy, manage to be fresh without being contrived, although the songs could sometimes be wittier by being briefer. The parenthetical postscripts to many of the titles serve as all the explanation the listener is given for songs...
Dray, who has taught at the New School in New York City, provides what is essentially a history of racism in the 100 years after the Civil War, when blacks were set free into a society that instantly contrived new ways to confine, exploit and humiliate them. Lynching became the...
Rock Steady is a very well mixed, written, and produced record that successfully incorporates ska-pop, new wave, and dancehall without sounding contrived or chaotic. It may not have the raw, high energy of their big hit album "Tragic Kingdom" (and probably won't sell as many copies), but it...
If they had been as malign as he in their vengefulness, they might better have hoped that he would live on yet a little while. For no death they could devise for him could be as cruel as must have been Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of...