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MIFOL: Thank you. Have a nice day. Refusing to give up, even with his feet bleeding as a result of the past days' journeys, our faithful writer trudged on tirelessly. Seeking refuge in the warm arms of those tireless purveyors of Harvard trivia, the Crimson Key Society...
...infidelity and life's sad ironies. There was a felt reality in the intimacy of Blue's textures, and its elliptical style kept the eye puzzled and alert. Not for the first time one wonders why American moviemakers can't get the hang of, the fun of, the higher trivia...
Hazenberg has had plenty of practice playing competitive trivia games. This year he is competing on Harvard's College Bowl "A" team, and in high school he was a member of the quiz bowl team...
...humor or human understanding. Cop-show stereotypes come in for even more satire. The police in this California backwater are a far cry from the cool, macho professionals who have populated TV dramas from Kojak to NYPD Blue. Mostly they are wimpy, neurotic, overemotional misfits, more obsessed with interpersonal trivia than the demands of police work. Not that the police work is very demanding. The morning roll call in Bakersfield P.D. is like Hill Street Blues on happy juice: "We've got two officers down and another squad car in the shop," announces the gruff sergeant (Brian Doyle-Murray...
...true? Yes. Cool trivia? Yes. Useful as insight into The Game...