Word: gimmickyã
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...provided at the beginning of the book, which sends the reader “hopscotching” from one chapter to another based on the loosest of associations. Such “make your own adventure”-style plotting can come off as familiar—even gimmicky??now that the approach has been co-opted by a subset of experiment-driven postmodern writers. Yet it speaks to Cortázar’s larger ambition to introduce a little anarchy into our reverence to literary tradition and to words, “those made-up pimps...
...optimal set of conditions. “The whole course was pretty much drenched,” Mayer said. “There were puddles all over the place, and grass was all soggy.” Mayer described the medium-length course as “kind of gimmicky?? with “a lot of weird holes” with bumpy greens, especially in the front nine. “The holes were designed to benefit extraordinary shots,” he said. “Even if it was in the wrong part...
...after a few minutes of constant flashing, the effect becomes irritating and gimmicky??like someone incessantly flicking the light switch on and off. And while this device clearly attests to the complexities of modern communication, traditionally one of Evans’ points of interest, it somewhat detracts from the viewer’s interaction with the texts themselves—making it more difficult to read the screens displaying Evans’ appropriated passages...
What ever happened to moody artists who believed in “artistic integrity”? In 1997, Rivers Cuomo told Alternative Press that he wasn’t eager to make anymore “gimmicky?? videos because he thought that Spike Jonze’s “Buddy Holly’” video was responsible for Weezer’s rise to fame. Only one video was made for Pinkerton—a straightforward three-minute ordeal panning over the geek boys playing “El Scorcho...
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