Word: gimmicked
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...movie aspires to some ambitious symbolism, but falls way short. Harry Thoreau lives next to a mythic pool, while Henry Thoreau lived next to a mythic pond, but this is left just a gimmick. Much of the movie takes place at the Marilyn Motel. The controversy surrounding Monroe's life and death is supposed to echo the theme of extraordinary events. The film's script cripples any possibly interesting manifestation of this potentially interesting idea...
Throughout the week's drama, the man Dole wants to replace kept a low profile. Though Clinton and his advisers have long regarded the amendment as a potentially dangerous gimmick that would make it harder for government to use its spending power to soften recessions, the President tried to distinguish his opposition to the amendment from his support for "the impulses that are giving rise to it." He also pursued a low-key campaign of quiet calls to wavering Democrats, offering them a chance to sit down with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Budget Director Alice Rivlin to work through...
Most of the time films have to start somewhere. Instead "Before the Rain" chooses to start everywhere. And like any film which relies on a gimmick, "Before the Rain" almost crumbles under the weight of the very thing that makes it special...
Muddying the Constitution is not the biggest problem with the Balanced Budget Amendment, especially when we consider the deficit's magnitude. At its heart, the BBA is a gimmick. It lets politicians fly into their districts and sanctimoniously proclaim that they have solved the problem. Yet the problem is still there. At its heart, the deficit problem is a political crisis of will and courage. At its simplest, this is all about politicians who care more about their future than America's future...
...plot is a gimmick in two brisk acts. In the first we meet six characters in search of a murder: Tony, a flamboyantly gay barber; Barbara, a tough-doll beautician; Eddie, a shady dealer in antiques; the patrician Mrs. Shubert; and two other salon customers who are soon revealed as detectives. They're staking out the building's upstairs tenant, Isabel Czerny, a reclusive concert pianist. Sure enough, the unseen Isabel is murdered. O.K.-whodunit...