Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your copy featuring Miss K. Hepburn was not only trivial but a departure from good taste. The number of baths she takes is of no public importance...
Lantern in the Belfry. In Washington, Langer soon got a reputation for being long on wind and trivial proposals, short on judgment and accomplishment; he was on almost all lists of the ten worst Senators. Among the bills he introduced was one to issue a special series of stamps to encourage mailing of good-will letters. This year, when Winston Churchill was coming to the U.S., Langer asked the vicar of Old North Church in Boston to place a lantern in the belfry to give the U.S. a Paul Revere warning. But worst of all, by Midwest Republican standards, Langer...
Three new movies set their trivial doings against large landscapes...
Also funny, in a completely different way, is Rex Harrison in the co-feature, Notorious Gentlemen. Harrison plays a young ne'r-do-well of the 30's who is "sent down" from Oxford, fired from a few jobs, and fined in court for a trivial offense. Not satisfied with all this, Harrison drives through at least four women, a small fortune, and some international auto races, finally ending up as a war casualty. The plot is simple, little more than the above, and enjoyable...
...last weeks of his life go by, the passionate questions become more & more trivial ("Is barley syrup made from barley?"), the obsessive topics more & more Promethean and miserable ("The cowards, to keep an unarmed man imprisoned upon a rock!"). The books and encyclopedias on his tables are replaced by syringes and bowls, bottles of orange-flower water, gentian, licorice, quinine and calomel. The doctors hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting...