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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could you waste even a single page on such trivial nonsense as the regurgitated Star Wars? GEORGE N. BUTLER Boca Raton, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

When all is said and done in Lake Placid, records are trivial. In each of the last two years, the sixth-place team has made it to the ECAC tournament final...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: The Road to Be Traveled | 2/21/1997 | See Source »

...upon which most constructive human interaction is based. Home training teaches us to say hello to people who greet us, not to yell in church or pick our noses in public or let the door slam behind us in someone's face. But may be these concepts are too trivial for the Harvard student who is busy becoming a future leader. After all, company executives, mayors and doctors will never need to know how to interact with people, will they...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Manners and Other Trivial Things | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...these questions seem trivial in comparison to confusion caused by a discovery we've made in recent viewings of the movies on video: in the entire extant Star Wars trilogy--so far as we have been able to discern--Chewbacca is the only wookie...

Author: By Dan. S. Aibel, | Title: BEING CHEWBACCA | 2/1/1997 | See Source »

...there. Someone, or something, was plotting to stop me from finding this book. It was probably the Communists. I attempted to call Robert Stack of "Unsolved Mysteries," but his secretary refused to put my call through, because she said that I call too often about "trivial matters" and that I have a tendency to "make things up." I tried to explain how the fact that I had found my tube of toothpaste uncovered one morning when I know that I had covered it the night before was not trivial, but unfortunately I had only 22 minutes left, leaving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Impossible: Finding Library Books | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

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