Word: trivia
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Such scholarship, said Bishop, aimed "not toward the fellow specialist but toward the elegant amateur," will rescue research from irrelevance. As an example of serious trivia, Bishop offered his own Ph.D. thesis, a 365-page treatise on the forgotten plays of 19th century French Critic-Playwright-Poet Jules Lemaitre. "I have often thought of extracting it from the library and burning it," he said, "but I renounced that purpose on realizing that no one has looked at it in 38 years...
...cozy, mangy flat of Mr. and Mrs. Hudd. Mrs. Hudd (Frances Sternhagen) tongue-rattles along at a great rate-about the icy weather through which her husband (Clarence Felder) must drive his van, about the unoccupied basement apartment she fears is occupied, about the tea and toast and trivia that mortise daily life. The landlord, who may not be the landlord, enters and reminisces about his mother and sister, who may or may not have been Jewish. After the landlord and the husband depart, a young apartment-hunting couple intrude with the disconcerting news that the Hudds' apartment...
Chanting Indian songs to the drone of a harmonium, blessing his guru, encompassing and blending into all the cosmic trivia he records, Ginsberg emerged at last, the Hippie Siddhartha--half desperately earnest, half just Putting on the Squares...
...substitute excused by the demands of her career but as a positive good liberating her from the demands of her home. Her career may well force her to spend less time on household chores--if so, she must avoid considering the housewife's role as a collection of trivia...
...Such trivia would hardly suffice for an 80-minute comedy, except that Godard uses story merely as a springboard into a series of gay, giddy improvisations. Filmed in 1961, Woman shows Godard's easy mastery of the style that was later used to antic effect in Tony Richardson's version of Tom Jones. Director Godard effortlessly bends his narrative into brightly colored free forms that glow with spontaneity. His three wistful misfits will not stay put as creatures of fiction. They keep popping in and out of it, sharing their secrets with the camera, affecting musical comedy poses...