Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have at least one thing in common with the rest of us: they get a kick out of Trivial Pursuit...
Apparently, the future chief justice knows about a lot more than the law. He also knows all you never needed to know about Entertainment, Science and Nature, History, Geography, and Art and Literature, the trivial subjects covered in the popular board game...
Andy Rooney, the elfin curmudgeon of 60 Minutes, usually gripes about quaintly trivial matters like hand soap and junk mail. But in his syndicated newspaper column two weeks ago, he launched an angry attack on a more substantial target: his own bosses. Recent layoffs and the just announced demise of the CBS Morning News, he charged, were symptoms of a growing bottom- line approach to news that is unworthy of a once great network. "CBS, which used to stand for the Columbia Broadcasting System, no longer stands for anything," Rooney wrote. "They're just corporate initials...
Does it matter, since new generations always do some fiddling with the classics they inherit? It does, first of all, because a story about a prince and his tutor is pretty trivial. Aesthetically it matters, because the heroine gets shunted aside, robbing the work of its drama and focus. And what possessed Nureyev to dredge the swans' lake? In this version they must invade the castle to get into the action at all. There are still things to admire in this work, including the attractive corps de ballet and the exquisite tutus, designed by Franca Squarciapino. Washington Square...
Personal charm and amiability are hardly trivial considerations for a Justice who wants to influence the court. The Chief Justice is merely first among equals on a court that Justice Powell once described as "nine one-man law firms." To sway his sometimes fiercely independent colleagues, a chief must be both intellectually forceful and collegial...