Word: drivel
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...well, the University will recommend that you take a worthwhile reading comprehension course at the Bureau of Study Council. So the ends of this test are kindly, but the means are a drag. The material on the test is guaranteed to be dull (in '75 it was some drivel about English kings of the 12th Century and their legal practices, I think). And it's so damned early in the morning... Big hint: Look in the back of the reading for a summary. All the answers are there...
Yellow Submarine. Attractively packaged drivel. When it premiered in 1968, "Yellow Submarine" was supposed to be the vanguard of a new age in animation. Since it featured cartoons of the Beatles--and a ridiculous plot regarding the salvation of "Pepperland" by the Fab Four, loosely constructed from their songs--the film was a big hit. Ten years later it's difficult to see why. The animation is quite good, the colors are splendid, but only a rock-ribbed Beatlemaniac could love this movie. Druggies beware, though. Our sources claim that this is a great movie to trip, snort, smoke, shoot...
...Enough drivel. The Crimson, smoldering bats and all, got its lone run in the top of the ninth inning, when Burke St. John, Jim Peccerillo, and freshman catcher Chuck Marshall strung consecutive singles together, with St. John tallying to prevent the shutout...
...then, this is no Romeo and Juliet score, and Cacoyannis is nt to euripideswhat Franco Zefferellis is to Shakespeare: a perpetrator of soppy drivel for the masses. Iphigenia has the power and appeal to be relatively popular, and if you disregard the final scene, the only thing the movie sacrifices is Iphigenia herself...
This sort of drivel, reminiscent of the most insipid moments in A Farewell to Arms, occupies too large a space, too central a place, in the structure of the novel...