Word: fluffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This perspective--or indeed, any perspective--obviously escaped Kaufman. Instead of treating the Peninsula piece as the fluff that it was, he freely applied the most libelous epithets imaginable, calling Peninsula members fascistic, Gestapo-esque anti-Semites...
...Standing. The characters played by Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler are like the Furies crossed with the Three Stooges--college friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners and pratfalls, the movie is more than satiric fluff. Like Thelma & Louise, which five years ago set audiences to cheering when Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon blasted a trucker's rig to smithereens--or last year's Waiting to Exhale, which had women yelling "Go, girl!" at the screen--The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well...
...fame as a rock band, but before it broke out of Athens, Georgia, and found mainstream success, it was a college-dance-party band. How the West Was Won, with its staccato, insistent, danceable rhythm, returns the band to its roots. But the song isn't simply clubland fluff; there are more than a few arty touches, including the sustained existential howl Stipe uses to punctuate the end of several passages...
...having a presumptive presidential candidate go out of his way to praise a film in which space invaders blow up the Capitol (shortly after he announced that security there should be reduced...), there's something slightly unsettling about the shift that commentary represents in the balance of power between fluff media and serious public discourse. It's disturbing to have reached a point where officials feel that they have to play follow-the-leader with Hollywood (not renowned as a think tank for sound public policy). Leaders should be spending more time trying to set an agenda of national concerns...
...their parents, are therefore at the mercy of University administrators. (Not incidentally, it is the middle class students whose family and personal incomes fall just above the assistance line who are most burdened by rising tuition costs.) Given this assurance of payment, Harvard has an obligation to eliminate administrative fluff. The University bureaucracy is big and bloated, faulty investment of dollars which might otherwise have been allotted to student services...