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Only then could Chanel daringly use dull black textiles, until then associated with widows' weeds and maids' uniforms, for plain but costly little dresses that made the contrived, bright, or pallid garb of the belle époque look foolish.
But the Village Voice 's Michael Atkinson calls the acting "generally lifeless, [with the] contrived feel of a Thanksgiving Day parade."
No mention of the flabby plot with its contrived deaths, no taking to task for the overworked prose--Ayemenem is just too far away.
The play itself, a revival of a 1966 thriller, fares no better: "a tediously contrived wind-up toy that yells 'Boo!
Its young protagonist, Harry Odum (Norman Reedus), a fry-cook in the postindustrial wasteland that is Youngstown, Ohio, lives with a shut-in mother, Kate (Deborah Harry), who has contrived to keep him in a state of sexual ignorance.