Word: contrivedness
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Atwood returned to Harvard last week to speak give a lecture titled “How I Became a Writer.” She began with her family history, then moved on to her childhood in northern Quebec and later Toronto, a time where she “read everything...
With the release of Rooty, their long-awaited follow-up to 1999’s instant-classic debut Remedy, Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton have firmly planted themselves in the realm of contemporary pop music. And with good reason—within the context of house music’s...
The first viewing of the propaganda film was shocking for Lusztig, not only because it “starred” her grandmother, but also due to the amount of effort put into its creation, even though its purpose was purely political. It is framed as a contrived detective story...
The Onion’s format as a newspaper also offers a sly critique of the formulaic constructions that comprise a modern paper, where content is sometimes contrived for content. For example, the “Point-Counterpoint” section shows how clearly inappropriate this supposedly controversy-raising section...
The humor in Sedaris is transgressive, but it never feels contrived to be so. It's his legitimate, warped view of his legitimate, warped life. There is nothing archetypal about Sedaris, nothing broad. While it's easy to think of Dave Barry as an especially funny version of a guy...