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...ideal world, the Lampoon would show more respect for the well-being of life forms more intelligent than most of its members. (Well, not exactly. In a truly ideal world, the Lampoon would stop littering our campus with inane drivel and go into a more respectable business. Organized crime, perhaps...
...memory during a boat explosion and has been living in a rich, evil nunnery owned by Demiris. "It's too bad I can't afford to let her live," he whispers to empty air. "But first -- my vengeance I'm going to enjoy myself with her." Reading Sheldon's drivel offers an important reassurance: travelers who stick with Demiris and Catherine till the end can endure whatever misery the airlines throw at them...
...embassy in Vientiane went to considerable lengths to control and curtail the ((drug)) trade." In the Journal, publisher Peter Kann, who was a reporter in Vietnam, and Phillip Jennings, a former Air America pilot, called the movie a "political obscenity" that smears Air America pilots as buffoons. "This drivel is scripted with all the subtlety of an Animal House cast reciting passages from Jane Fonda's Hanoi diaries...
...read Lisa Alther's new novel, Bedrock? Since her first novel, Kinflicks, remains a fondly remembered artifact of the 1970s fusion of feminism and sexual freedom, a conventional negative review might convey the unintended message that this book is merely disappointing. But shouting from the rooftops "This is drivel!" would make me seem like the kind of insensitive male who is rooting for the Donald in the divorce dispute of the decade...
Talent cannot be forced. A writer who plans to write the Great American Novel usually produces drivel. A quarterback who plans to carry his team on his shoulders usually finds he cannot move...