Word: tripe
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...recordings that a record company has decided to delete from its catalog, often because they want to make them available only in compact disc. Places like the Harvard Coop sell hundreds of them for about half the price of other recordings. They require rummaging through--there is much tripe among the treasure--but they often reward patience. Records' liner notes, by the way, often provide interesting information about the composer, piece and performers...
Amerika can't be taken seriously. It shouldn't be. That the United Nations is threatening to sue ABC for "misuse" of its logo only lends legitimacy to the network's racist tripe. The shrill indignation of the show's critics has the same effect. Post-episode forums on the show's "significance," which draw on "experts" whose expertise is just a wisp below the Phil Donahue standard, don't help either...
...understand why Kurzman doesn't wish to see it tarnished. He completely fails to convince me, however, that fielding a dominant hockey team will have this effect. His discussion of the admissions, living, and academic perquisites Harvard athletes supposedly enjoy is, by his own admission, undocumented rumor. Gossipy tripe about football players bragging over low SAT scores is meaningless. Also, the connection between athletes, investment policy, women's studies, and Afro-American Studies completely escapes...
...Crimson should not endorse such sexist tripe. Moreover, a teacher's husband sleeping with a student is an outrageous violation of the trust of the university, and is not a fit subject for dramatic portrayal. Willa Brown '81 Penn Law School...
...fact, punished every time he slips into cruel or unusual behavior. Seducing Jonica means that he also is obliged to listen to her: " 'I have to trust. I have to feel,' she told me. I have to go to bed, I thought. Never had I heard such tripe." Fortunately, Weiner is not nearly as wicked or unprincipled as he pretends. "There was nothing I wouldn't stoop to," he says, but the claim is transparently false. His ineptitude as a villain is exceeded only by his bafflement at the world around...