Word: drivel
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...always giving us, as writer-director Barry Levinson does in Man of the Year, tastes and tidbits of Williams in full cry, the while looking for calming cutaways, subplots and diversions that will permit us respite from his mania. All too often this material is sanctimonious and sentimental, humanistic drivel, and doing it Williams often seems shifty, looking for love in all the wrong places...
...Spillane's critics thought he typed with his fists: TIME in 1952 called his stuff "sexy drivel." But anyone could see that the man's books had socko starts and knockout endings. I, the Jury begins with Hammer finding his best war buddy, who had literally (everything's literal in Spillane) given his right arm to save Mike, dead on his apartment floor with a grapefruit-size hole in his gut. Hammer swears revenge. But first, for purposes of evidence or exercise or fun, he beats up a plethora of punks, the bouts described with a grisly precision and brio...
...organized in a way that can help maximize our success in the near term, because success will change the nature of this debate,” Scadden says.“I’m sorry I’m giving you such late night too-much-wine drivel,” he adds, becoming jokingly self-conscious about his enthusiasm for the possibilities in Allston.But it’s not just Harvard’s ambitions that need to move quickly. In addition to contending with rapidly deteriorating facilities, the Charlesview Board must rush to utilize a law passed...
...Allen single-handedly destroyed “The Shaggy Dog,” dragging down the excellent performances of his supporting cast. In “The Wild,” Sutherland overcomes the mediocrity of his fellow actors—one fearsome roar amidst a din of discordant drivel...
...Jerold Nadler, D-N.Y., blasted the paper as a "dishonest piece of crap" in an interview with The New York Sun, and Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., called the paper "anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist drivel." Harvard’s Frankfurter professor of law, Alan M. Dershowitz, told The Crimson that Walt and Mearsheimer are "liars" and "bigots...