Word: contrivedness
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Theater is the clue to understanding how we are choosing the successor to our first actor President. This may be one of Reagan's lasting legacies. Onstage the candidates offer performances of calculated civility, feigned rage and planned ad libs. Backstage the underlying hostility is real enough, among competitors not...
The other candidates immediately blasted Gephardt for blatant opportunism. In New Hampshire, Paul Simon put on tough radio ads outlining issue after issue in which "Congressman Gephardt" said one thing while "Candidate Gephardt" said another. Michael Dukakis accused Gephardt of being "protectionist" and having 19th century ideas about trade. Even...
The two-floor exhibit at the ICA is organized according to different periods in Sherman's short career. Her earliest photographs are "film stills," small black-and-white pieces in which she assumes the role of an imaginary starlet caught for the camera in a contrived Hollywood moment. Already in...
"The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the master. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs...
But the series stands well apart from most other current family shows, with their contrived plots and wisecracking tots. Parents on The Cosby Show are figures of calm authority, not boobs, and episodes revolve around the realistic trivia of everyday family life: Dad goes out to buy a new car...