Word: sophomoricism
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Now Bochco has retrenched. Civil Wars, his latest drama series, takes him back into comfortable L.A. Law territory. Mariel Hemingway and Peter Onorati (a survivor of Cop Rock) play New York City lawyers who team up to handle divorce work. The Bochco trademarks are all here: three or four story...
O'Rourke's evolution has taken him from juvenile lampoonery and sophomoric one-liners to a bitterly funny, and fairly astute, analysis of the Federal Government. Though a draft dodger during Vietnam, he saw firsthand the flaws of the 1960s ethic when the self-styled Balto-Cong raided his underground...
The clash between supporters and opponents of gay rights has produced a frustrating dilemma for me--and probably for a lot of other curious spectators too. As a heterosexual who sympathizes with the plight of gays in America, I am embarrassed by the sophomoric and sometimes downright sadistic campaign against...
Here is the pseudo event not everyone has been waiting for: the publication of Bret Easton Ellis' controversial American Psycho (Vintage; $11), the sophomoric, overwritten satire of the yuppie '80s that contains the most gratuitous descriptions of sadistic murder and mayhem ever contained in a general trade novel. Simon & Schuster...
But the perpetrator damaged the liberal cause on campus in another way--by depriving some Harvard students of an opportunity to see Peninsula's sophomoric diatribes for themselves. Let Peninsula compete in the "marketplace of ideas." There is no better way to discredit it.