Word: trivia
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...lengthy exploration of his or her marriages and living arrangements. Only the inexperienced expect a journalistic transaction to be risk free. This includes intellectuals so disdainful of pop culture as to be innocent about it. Suddenly, in order to flog a book, they find themselves in a studio talking trivia with Merv or Kup or Mike, shedding their standoffishness and their standards to avoid looking pompous on-camera...
...rattling of Yale's skull and bone does not settle such lingering questions a what killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and whether they were warm blooded or cold. Yet even the most trivia news from the dinosaur world seems to hold everybody in thrall. Adds Yale Pale ontologist John Ostrom: ''It's good busines for the museum and for Yale...
...everyone pay the same shows we respect you as much as we do the West German imperialist." The images are never complicated, and Buchwald doesn't hesitate to repeat his point for emphasis: the only way to follow politics is to laugh at it, and in the end, the trivia of day-to-day life is probably more interesting...
...operates Steve Herrell's Ice Cream. Joey Crugnale, who shyly describes his outrageously heavy and rich ice cream as "the best," keeps a player piano jingling away in the corner and sometimes has his store manager cheer up the pilgrims standing in his lines by holding trivia quizzes (sample: "Who was the only actor to win two Academy Awards in a row, and what were the movies?" Answer: Spencer Tracy for Captains Courageous [1937] and Boys Town [1938]). This is known in the restaurant trade as ambience...
...briefly abetted by Ned Beatty) is still egocentrically on hand. But he is pretty much a bench warmer for the forces of darkness. The heavyweight heavies now are Zod, Ursa and Non (an unrecognizable Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'Halloran), whom experts in yesterday's trivia will recall as the trio of traitors the good folks of Krypton compressed to the proportions of a flat rock and sent skimming over the ocean of space at the beginning of the first film. Accidentally released from bondage, they make their way to earth with intent to take over...