Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show he has famously said is about nothing, which, of course, is charmingly disingenuous. Because if Seinfeld--arguably television's first genuine comedy of manners since Leave It to Beaver--is about nothing, then so are the works of Jane Austen and Noel Coward. If Seinfeld seems trivial, it is only because manners have so devolved over the course of our century. Like the rest of us, the show's overly analytic foursome must pick their way through an increasingly chaotic social battlefield, forced to write their own etiquette for even the most insignificant encounters. And then there...
...pressing economic uncertainty that all Asian countries, including Japan, are now experiencing. With billions of dollars flying around the world in speculative investments and huge hedge funds, the liberalization of financial and capital markets has directly contributed to the crisis in Korea. But the hardships of Koreans could be trivial compared to what others will soon experience. South Korea will feel a burn, but other parts of the world will feel conflagration. NAM SOOHYOUN Seoul...
While this strange idea of student choice might seem trivial to The Crimson, to many of us who voted against the boycott it is singularly important. I do not particularly like grapes, and I found the literature from both the self-interested pro-grape lobby and the notoriously disingenuous UFW less than credible. Nonetheless, I do not feel that I have the right to decide for other Harvard students whether or not they wish to make such a political statement. --Allan L. Hill...
This isn't a trivial matter of cleanliness. Every time you install a new program, it adds extra files to your system's operating environment. And each of these files, in turn, makes your computer slower and less powerful...
...thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download for free. (Help yourself.) But he runs the biggest of the term-paper sites, so everyone wants to interview him about this trivial and silly controversy. "I've never spent so much time on the phone with the press," he says happily...