Word: trivia
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...last few years, total recall has become almost a way of life. Rip examines magazines devoted to trivia, recalling the names of Tarzan's co-stars and the Lone Ranger's genealogy. He sees ads for Buster Keaton festivals and even for Ozymandian musicals like Grease, celebrating the vanished glories of '50s rock 'n' roll. The stranger pushes on; nostalgia-at preposterous prices-peers at him from shop windows. Fashion bends backward with shaped suits and long skirts, wide-brimmed hats, ubiquitous denims and saddle shoes. He has, alas, missed miniskirts and hot pants...
...Crimson is proud to present another annual sports trivia extravaganza. In the interest of serious competition, contestants are limited this year by the following criteria...
...Vietnamese mediate dispute among themselves?" Does he think that the nations ought to call a tribal council? His inability to place the negotiations in a social and historical context--the imperialistic, thrust of American foreign policy over the past century or two--leads to a bizarre obsession with the trivia of press releases and statements of propaganda, as if the substance of the dispute were no more than etymological confusion...
...mildly, the conditions that govern what passes for advanced art today, especially in New York. The Avant-Garde Festival, held this fall on a boat moored at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, was a fair example of the problem: a confusion of irresolute trivia, ranging from a cabin full of autumn leaves (which, at least, the kids enjoyed throwing around), through numerous video pieces, to Charlotte Moorman-who enjoys a fame of sorts as the world's only topless cellist-playing her instrument under water. It was all so affably amateurish, like a transistorized rummage sale, that...
...mind's I, and not as a separate entity. For Winnie (Jessica Tandy), who is buried up to the waist in Act I of Happy Days and up to the neck in Act II, life is a slow, garrulous leak into the sands of death. The trivia of her handbag and stray threads of memory sustain her, together with a fossil of a husband who is scarcely seen and seldom heard. In Krapp's Last Tape, the dialogue is incestuous. A 69-year-old man (Hume Cronyn) communes with his recorded self of earlier birthdays and indulges...