Word: contrivedness
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The premise for The Golden Child, the first of what will be a long series of "Eddie Murphy Productions," is the year's silliest. In his contrived script, screenwriter Dennis Feldman puts Murphy's wisecracking persona up against a story that combines a sappy romance with the classic Spielberg formulas...
THIS COMPLEX LIST of suspects may suggest the makings of a contrived prime-time melodrama, but it should be noted that P.D. James is a true mystery artiste, whose writing transcends the seeming transparency of her material. Her prose is direct, with an unmistakably British flavor. It is of little...
Yet despite the richness of James' brand of fiction, the book never seems overburdened or contrived. Her smooth unravelling of the mystery's details works hand-in-hand with her psychological portraits to create a work that is at once sheer entertainment and complex social inquiry. A Taste for Death...
In other municipalities, officials were not even that generous. When we gathered the signatures on petitions for special sites to which they would send a registrar on a given day for two hours, they contrived to disqualify signatures, made excuses for long delays, and griped constantly about going to so...
Arguments are being waged over which of the triumvirate is the greatest, but none over who is the smartest. Polishing off a double major in three years, Kosar had two seasons of eligibility remaining when he contrived his own N.F.L. draft and installed himself last year as the boy genius...