Word: sophomoricism
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The relationship was Washington's most talked-about liaison long before Matalin sparked a political fire storm last week with a scathing personal attack on Clinton. Contrary to George Bush's no-first-sleaze rule, Matalin drafted a sophomoric memo that mocked Clinton's girth, branded his campaign "lower than...
Durang aims to devour them all, and a sumptuous feast it should be. However, his character assassinations go too often for the obvious, never really piercing the level of sophomoric, imitative humor one might find in an amateur parody.
"DO YOU WANNA GET ROCKED?" shouts DEF LEPPARD on its new album, Adrenalize (Mercury). The answer, judging by the way the record has beaten Springsteen to the top spot on the pop charts, is a thunderous yes. The British band offers its trademark formula: a sonic avalanche of crunching power...
COMPLETELY MAD by Maria Reidelbach (Little, Brown; $39.95). For almost 40 years, American adolescence has been incomplete without a case of acne or a subscription to Mad magazine. This bright chronicle explains why the latter, at least, is true. While Alfred E. ("What -- Me Worry?") Neuman has watched two generations...
Good sportswriters have the talent to take the insignificant and make it universal, to take the minute and make it allegorical. These reporters can describe a last second buzzer-beating basket in a cellar-dweller basketball game in such terms that we are convinced that this one, perhaps lucky, shot...