Word: contrivedness
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Rozema has a gift for striking scenes which communicate more through images than words. The first love scene between Petra and Camille cuts between love-making and a graceful trapeze duet; Martin's phone call home is recorded on an answering machine next to Camille's empty bed. While Camille...
Constantly dictating the scenes in a passive-aggressive manner, Zahedi indeed resembles his Jewish counterpart as a control freak. The movie's few merits lie in Zahedi's documentary-like style, which exposes the dynamics of his relationships with his father and sibling. The method of allowing events to unfold...
On October 9, 1995 an article appeared in the newest conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, criticizing the government department for its affirmative action policies in graduate admissions. Characterizing the department's policy as "race norming"--an unfair admissions process where blacks are compared solely with other blacks--the author insinuates...
It is Oct. 26, and the Republican members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee have gathered to divvy up federal Medicaid funds among the states. The House has already contrived a new formula, which the initial Senate plan fails to match. The committee has already promised Texas an additional $5...
Her performance is strong enough to make you overlook the play's shortcomings. Master Class has a less gratifying shape than what may be McNally's best play, also Callas inspired, The Lisbon Traviata (it's also less well constructed than last year's uneven Love! Valour! Compassion!, which nevertheless...