Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential debate--even a dull one--is a big news event, so maybe it merited this full-blown media bombardment. In today's overheated news environment, however, the same sort of saturation coverage is piled on even trivial events: Hillary Clinton's "conversations" with Eleanor Roosevelt, or a six-year-old's suspension from school for kissing a classmate. News--or at least lots of verbiage that passes for news--seems to be everywhere. Sometimes it blares at us with banner headlines and sensational TV come-ons. Other times, it just drones, a kind of Muzak for current-events obsessives...
...hard," and a "confection which rose all sugar from the waves" for dessert. The meal produces a conviction in all those gathered that "We are all going to heaven and Vandyck is of the company--in other words, how good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship and the society of one's kind, as, lighting a good cigarette, one sunk among the cushions in the window-seat...
Panelists agreed that because Dole and Clinton are politically similar on many issues, the press has focused on trivial events...
Then there's the competition. AOL, for instance, with more than 6 million subscribers, is revamping its popular Games Channel, which already offers scores of multiplayer games, from strategy and combat games like Air Warriors to classics like chess and Trivial Pursuit, and recently purchased inn to add to its gaming roster. "We're focusing on games that are designed specifically for an online environment," says Lawrence Schick, AOL's general manager for games. "We're really developing a community...
...professor's age, meanwhile, takes two factors into account: the eyesight and the probability of tenure. Older profs can't see as well as younger ones; moreover, they are more likely to be jaded and tenured and thus less likely to care about a trivial 20-year-old snoozing. Hey, their research grants are still coming in, so it's no skin off their backs...