Word: contrivedness
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As Phillip, Longmuir delivers many one-liners to great comic effect. Occasionally his childlike wonder seems contrived, and several of his more emotional lines fall flat: "Now I know where I am," he says dopily, clutching the map of Philadelphia that Harold has given him.
YOU MIGHT NOT IMAGINE A LOT OF laughs in being held hostage in Lebanon, stripped to your sweat-soaked shorts and sour T shirt, chained to the wall of a cell shared with other victims, not knowing who has taken you or for how long or, above all, why. But...
THE "PEOPLE'S BUSINESS," AS the work of the U.S. Congress is often called, began on a note of high drama back in January 1991, when members of the 102nd class of representatives debated the wisdom of going to war in the Persian Gulf. How quickly they fell. From the...
That is the inherent problem with presidential debates: what is remembered is the theatrics, the contrived drama, the carefully rehearsed sound bites. Lost in the spin control are those rare insightful moments that foreshadow what a would-be President actually will do in office, the crises he will face and...
Early in "The Last of the Mohicans," we see pioneer Natty Bumppo sprinting through the woods of upstate New York, flintlock rifle in hand. The light is dappled, the deer are leaping, and the whole scene is actually being shot on the parklands of a Vanderbilt mansion in the heart...