Word: drivel
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...Reclaiming the American Dream”—but Obama looks sharp. He leans forward with a knowing smile, probably thinking about how his presidency intimations are driving the media into a frenzy. According to the dust jacket, the book is about 400 pages of hollow political drivel about bringing hope, happiness, and milk and honey back to America. The inside flap promises a few personal stories about Obama, but don’t expect anything too profound. As a potential presidential candidate, Obama has to keep things boring...
...hell, “Saw III.” The stupid trailer assumes that we’ve seen the first two installments of the franchise, spewing out inane narration-drivel about how “YOU’VE SEEN HIS HORROR. YOU’VE SEEN HIM WORK. NOW, SEE HIS LEGEND GROW” and so on. Who the hell is “he?” Is his name Mr. Saw? I have no idea. I have to believe that the deep-throated horror-narrator guy that they have for every such trailer is just...
...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...