Word: contrivedness
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Cheney, Dick •criticism of torture is dismissed by as "contrived indignation," "phony moralizing" and "feigned outrage"
With an added risqué make-out session here and a beer pong tournament there, “The Quad” may, at first, seem like a Harvard version of “High School Musical.” But “The Quad” is a...
Despite the cheerful and celebratory connotations of its title, Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party” is existentialist, absurdist, and dark. The latest performance put on by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club inspires moments of snort-inducing hilarity even as it elicits gasps. Directed...
What are the sources of that grief? You might call it a nonspecific social and personal malaise. It was never Kentridge's way to tackle South African history head on. As a white South African, he once described himself as living at the "edge of huge social upheavals yet also...
“Miss March” is a shitshow—literally. You know a movie is desperate when volatile explosions of feces constitute the film’s only real thread of comedy. In a world where boys will be boys and girls will be their playthings, ?...