Word: contrivedness
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You hear it and see it all over Indonesia. People laugh at the suggestion that the government can or will improve their lot. It's not a happy laugh. It sounds more like resignation, a self-preserving suppression of hope. Politicians are considered corrupt until proven innocent, and if they...
The result, Mode 2001 Landed-Geland, a series of four exhibitions staged througout Antwerp for the next four months, is a means of exploring where the creative energy of the Antwerp designers comes from. The series of exhibitions includes things not normally associated with fashion shows, like helicopter rides, videos...
The culmination of the whole trend may lie in NBC's "The Little People," which is contrived to capitalize on nearly every current vogue. It deals with the adventures of a pediatrician (thus getting into the medical bag) who practices with his rebellious daughter (the generation gap) in Hawaii (ethnic...
Some college friends say that much of Bush's antagonism towards Yale was contrived, an attitude adopted after his Ivy League pedigree was used against him in his failed 1978 bid to become a Congressman from Midland, Texas. Even his friends in Midland would tease Bush about his preppie East...
"The whole energy policy is leaving congressional Republicans very nervous, especially in the House, where they're all up for re-election in 2002. Their opinion polls show that most people suspect that this energy shortage is contrived by Big Oil and the energy companies, and if gas prices are...