Word: drivel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government Printing Office should be embarrassed to be publishing this drivel. But more importantly, so should the military. Some top brass must have approved this brochure, calculating that the sort of person to fall for the pitch would be useful in the Army...
...same sites for about $4 less. As a comedy, Hard To Hold has its moments: more smiles than belly-busting hysterics of the successful and more entertaining Splash or Arthur, With only two concert scenes, it fails as an extended video for all but the most committed pop-drivel addicts...
...commit rape." I haven't yet found anyone who committed or considered committing rape after reading the newsletter, and everyone is either squeaking and beeping with outrage or laughing at those who take it seriously. I do find offensive the charge that men become rapists after reading such drivel--that we cannot think without our testicles getting in the way. If that isn't sexist, let's scrap the term...
HOPELESSLY TRAPPED by such drivel, the cast nevertheless plugs away with surprising spirit and energy. Less, unfortunately, can be said for other aspects of the production. The band consistently falters on the Carole King score, while the disjointed intrusions of motherly presence via large video monitors (with sequences by Melanie McDermott, Alison Taylor, and Ruth Mieszkuc) fail to achieve any immediacy at all. But such flaws of execution remain secondary in a show which so clearly should never have been attempted. The Sendak mystique for children is in many ways analogous to the grown-up vogue of Edward Gorey...
...belly." Conaway sketches in the intervening years: at Harper's, "his stewardship foundered in 1971," so Morris went off "to dwell on the cusp of his own notoriety." His books since are quickly disposed of: one is "a disappointment to his admirers"; another a critic had called "derivative drivel"; a third "did nothing to enhance Morris' reputation...