Word: gimmicks
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Almost every moment in the script rings false. Why do the lovers scrupulously avoid each other 363 days a year? For no reason other than to preserve the writer's one-set gimmick. Why do the adulterers profess so much affection for each other's spouse and kids? So that old-fashioned audiences won't be too threatened by the couple's yearly transgressions. Slade is a classic practitioner of the have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too school of Broadway dramaturgy. He seems to be saying that a carefully circumscribed adultery will actually improve...
...gimmick. All you need is a gimmick to give the Harvard-Yale game its annual place of ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
...gimmick it is. Why should the band be the only entertainment? Let's make the whole thing sophisticated humor in shoulder pads. Theater of the Absurd in an unquestionable ancient setting. It all starts with one phone call...
Come to think of it, who needs a gimmick anyway? There's always something at stake, and The Game's crazy tradition could very well dictate a spectacular finale on Saturday...
...There are differences between us on issues" Sears said, "Connolly doesn't have to use this gimmick...