Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. Bobby Fischer's assertion that it is 'everything' is merely necessary monomania. As for the maniac: "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality...
...Steiner comes to acknowledge, the event that Fischer called "this little thing between me and Spassky" was not so minor after all. "To an extraordinary number of human beings," he concludes, "the events of that summer communicated a rare sense of intensity... for several months, a totally esoteric, essentially trivial endeavor, associated with pimply, myopic youths and vaguely comical old men on park benches, held the world enthralled...
...Past efforts to slow down or terminate the arms race were not successful, not-withstanding Mr. Nixon's and Mr. Brezhnev's SALT devices to cover up the arms race with trivial issues," he said...
...Shearin has applied a light but firm touch to his enterprise and his talented company, avoiding overdoing a script easily overdone and providing a fluent, entertaining piece of theater. The fast and funny domestic dialogue, like the banter in any household, conveys surprisingly complex meaning and tension through its trivial irrelevance and presents a challenge of interpretation which the production meets. Dealing with an obvious though not unambiguous "message play," the Loeb group meets the problem of getting the message across without hammering it in. Odets-a short-term Communist Party member who quit because of the party's doctrinaire...
...Culture's John the Baptist. And he's a million dollar property. A paperback primer entitled The Essential Lenny Bruce sells all over the country. In it his routines and schticks are broken down into handy categories, Lenny on "Politics," "Blacks," "Jews," etc. He's been packaged into a trivial musical comedy that aims to sell a ridiculously romanticized "Lenny." And in the works is a Columbia picture, a $3 million Lenny Bruce Story to star Dustin Hoffman...