Word: drivelous
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...DIDN'T HAVE an easy spring this year. I was shivering in my winter jacket until late May. I wrote 50 pages of reading period drivel. I went home alone after my spring formal...
This process does not ensure drivel. Casablanca had seven writers, Tootsie eight, It's a Wonderful Life 10, yet each film summoned a seamless verbal style, abundant in wit. These commodities are out of fashion today. Sister Act could have been written by one guy who looked at old movies and decided they were about spiritual uplift made easy. If the picture in fact turns out to be a hit, Midler may be miserable, but the suits will be happy. It will prove to them that films needn't be written; they can be assembled like Lego blocks. To others...
...contrast, Married is a truly disgusting show about wretched people. "Love" never enters into it. This "family" would probably benefit from nice, Kramer-style divorce. And as for the American Sitcom, this show represents everything that is mediocre--no, reprehensible--about the drivel that nightly spews from our television sets. It is the dry heaves, the putrid bile that remains after Roseanne purges her undigested pop culture...
...sure, many TV shows are drivel. But using them to indict all of television is intellectually dishonest, NBC's decision to air Manimal doesn't make L.A. Law a bad show. Anyone who mentions Hard Copy and Nightline in the same breath is simply an idiot. If you watch Nova you'll learn something; if you watch Freddy's Nightmares, you won't. It's just common sense...
...Route 66," slowed the pace of the jam down to a kinder, gentler speed. Clarence Ewing's smooth solo was perfect for this number, and the group's shift at the end into French lyrics added spark to a tune that could have been just another tepid piece of drivel. "Daddy's Home" followed, featuring Toby Blackwell and Kenya Thompson in a rich, mellow duet...