Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regards Castro as a Stalinist and a gangster, and now lives in London.) His book is a remarkably good novel of memory, and it is memory that splits the images and works the magnifications, producing the prose pratfalls, the crosscutting of parody and boozy interior monologue, the bits of trivia in two languages worn smooth like lucky stones...
More than any other modern occupant of the White House, Richard Nixon has guarded his privacy. He does not see the presidency as a platform to provide his constituency with psychic gratification, nor does he feel that trivia like what he has for breakfast are worthy of being trumpeted to the four corners of the earth. He revealed his introspective side in this rare and illuminating tour of the Executive Mansion with TIME's White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter...
...have an absolute rule: I refuse to make decisions that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decisions. Don't let your mind become cluttered with trivia. Don't let yourself become the issue...
...sultry number, delivered by a one-woman heat wave named Jonelle Allen. The excuse for ventures of this sort is that they render the classics accessible. Actually, such shows are merely masked in the accessories of modernity - rock music, randy deshabille, silly props and lofty panfraternal sentimentality. The resulting trivia are perfectly suited to an audience that in Eliot's phrase wishes to be "distracted from distraction by distraction." · T.E. Kalem
...crowding into a 174 page book. The pieces range in length from a few pages to several lines, tiny Brautiganisms that haven't made it into his poetry collections only because the words don't rhyme. Brautigan bills them as fiction but their accent gives them away as autobiographical trivia...