Word: contrivedness
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The pages Percy devotes to establishing and then fleshing out this mystery are as gripping as any he has ever written. Dr. More's slow piecing together of unsettling symptoms proceeds with nightmarish fascination. Any solution to such a carefully rendered enigma is likely to seem a letdown, and Percy...
Artistically, Starlight hurtles toward the freight yards of fiasco. Even by its own standards -- its creators seek to be judged in the context of Disneyland, not Sweeney Todd -- it is too much of the same thing going on for too long. And unlike Disneyland, Starlight is a passive experience: the...
The opinions expressed last week make clear the need for women to assert an independent voice in society. However, I found to my mortification that in writing to defend the concept of a concentration in Women's Studies I found it impossible not to sound as closed-minded and contrived...
THE SECOND play, What Time Is This Place?, never attains the vigor and spark of Am I Blue. Written by the artistic director of the Alley, this one-act is a '60s-meets-the-'80s drama. It tries too hard to say something meaningful about the latest generation gap and...
Ego, That's what. Signs of dramatic hubris are all over the place. Kopit realized whose shadow he was working under, and early in his play he dismissed Dr. Strangelove's significance to the present-day nuclear situation. He tries to add some Pirandellian interest to the issue by writing...