Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trivia: Opera lover...
...Trivia: Plays classical piano...
...Michael Foreman (Arcade; $16.95). A Briton makes the '40s home front seem as recent as last week. No horrors here, just a collection of strangely compelling trivia. When bombs went off, for example, they scattered seeds out of gardens. "The following spring and summer, piles of rubble burst into bloom. Marigolds, irises and, best of all, potatoes sprouted everywhere...
...catalog is not a mass of fanzine trivia. It is the indispensable text on its subject, whose every page vibrates with the authors' enthusiasm for the "high," their curiosity about the "low" and their richly inflected sense of the complex traffic between the two. Gopnik and Varnedoe write better than their critics. The next-to-last essay ("Contemporary Reflections," by Gopnik, covering a wide swath from David Salle and Cindy Sherman to the short- lived graffiti movement) is, on its own, the best summary yet written of American...
Indeed, the New Kids are a paradigm of pop's renewed stress on success and salesmanship. At their appearances, vendors hawking New Kids merchandise will help pull in an estimated $400 million this year. Giant video screens keep the crowd engaged during intermission with New Kids multiple-choice trivia contests (Q.: Who is Jordan's favorite singer? A.: Frank Sinatra) and with repeated, insistent references to McDonald's, which has pitched in a bundle to sponsor the group's U.S. tour. "They're a very wholesome, all-American group that has the same kind of family values that McDonald...