Word: drivel
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...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...
...enough, comes the social insight. The viewer is comfortable rooting for, among others, a convicted car thief and a deposed don against corrupt law enforcement and an oil-greed government conspiracy. Dostoyevsky this ain’t, but it’s more thought-provoking than the average Fox drivel. So, if next week a prisoner is made to eat his own hair or the vice-president tries to have the prison burned down, don’t be surprised. But don’t feel guilty enjoying it either! No, seriously, don’t feel guilty...
Faint praise, perhaps, at a time when network mini-series have sunk to the soap-opera drivel of North and South and Kane & Abel. But Bleak House is also a step above the general run of tony, tasteful and sometimes tedious British drawing-room dramas that arrive regularly on these shores. There is, for one thing, scarcely a drawing room to be found. The beautifully detailed production moves with ease from the grand country estate of Lord and Lady Dedlock (Robin Bailey and Diana Rigg) to the drab chambers of Chancery and into the sad, grimy streets of London slums...
...daily life. The little black box on my bureau calls out street addresses, suspect descriptions, and the other minutiae of law enforcement’s lexicon. From speeding tickets to serious crime, the dispatches require a trained ear to filter out the real drama from the regular drivel...
Before I leave you all to your bottomless pits of procrastination, the somber educational side of me feels it my duty to provide some links of more genuine value to adequately counterweight the drivel I’ve thus far laid down. The Harvard Library web site, geeky a suggestion as it may be, is actually a nice place to waste time—ProQuest Historical Newspapers can get you the complete content of a handful of widely syndicated newspapers, advertisements included, from any date back as far as the mid 19th century, and the Naxos Music Library...