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Prior to my firing the cannonball, I contrived to tie one end of a red rope around the axle of the paddle wheel and a modest size bucket to the other end of the rope.
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 critics are unmoved: "just another lurid, contrived, xenophobic tale about Americans trapped in hideous foreign prisons" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ). A few call Danes' performance better than the rest of the film but concede that even her nice turn can't save the film.
It is rich in contrived rock formations, vegetation, and waterfalls.
By marrying his daughters to sons of the reigning emperor and then engineering timely abdications, a Fujiwara contrived always to be father-in-law, uncle, or grandfather behind the throne.