Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately unsatisfied with the parable of wealth, family and a man who must face his own trivial life. Bertolucci concludes the work on a religious note--but again be fails to integrate, slapping on symbolism like an applique. Barefoot, the son reborn dances with the workers in an episode stylistically unrelated to the rest of the movie. Primo arrives at no revelation, achieves no redemption from his farcical life. He exists calling for more champagne, as bewildered as the audience...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. It could have addressed departmental prerogatives, giving students more of a voice in tenure and tutorial decisions. It could have put students in control of funds that the dean of students now doles out. And it could have stripped centralized student government of the trivial and ultimately unsuccessful social activities that were its predecessor's only sphere of influence and that precluded the assembly from meriting a reputation as a serious deliberative body...
...name; it exudes machismo-is a studly looking fellow complete with suede jacket and baby blues, and he tries to get the police to give Jamie some protection. But their cop friend, Captain Maxwell (Vince Edwards), whom they call Max, of course, has no time to bother with such trivial things as potential psychopathic sex murderers. He delivers to Brandon's face a terribly ridiculous speech explaining that crime has become a way of life in America. Oh. really? Brandon asks what he should do then, if the police aren't going to help him. "Get a gun." Captain...
Without waiting for a reply, Garment unfolded an astonishing and shattering tale: within a matter of days my evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
Without waiting for a reply, Garment unfolded an astonishing and shattering tale: within a matter of days my evocation of national reconciliation would look like a plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...