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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because of its trivial role in real matters, the council is left to issues which can only be described as insignificantly autoerotic, at least from the viewpoint of the common undergraduate: constitutional reform (but who cares?), member expulsions and the provision of circuses. These are the issues that sustain the council and give it life, like pumping stale sugar water into a half-dead body to keep it alive...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Give the Council Some Substance | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

While some people dismiss donations to panhandlers as trivial, a small donation can be a matter of life or death for the homeless...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Square's Homeless Face New Challenges | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...which predatory executive Demi Moore accosts sweet, sensitive Michael Douglas. Jenny Craig plaintiff Tracy Tinkham looks more like Joey Buttafuoco than Michael Douglas, but never mind. Perhaps he was succeeding handsomely at counseling overweight women and should have been promoted instead of being let go for breaking a trivial rule. We are asked to believe that these men's having to listen to jokes about push-up bras or being asked to lift a heavy box makes for a winning case and worldwide media attention, when women have been listening to penis jokes and making coffee for decades. Sure, complaints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Female Chauvinist Pigs? | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...think about it, the main thing is not what I did or didn't do, but that students were able to get tickets for $12, when they otherwise would have had to pay $25 or skip The Game. I was going to ignore the accusations because they seemed to trivial, but it seems. The Crimson won't let them go away. Rudd W. Coffey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Stirs Up False U.C. Scandal | 12/6/1994 | See Source »

Obsession, when it takes hold, is not a fragrance but a lethal gas. It envelops and consumes us; it is all the air we breathe. It should make for an ideal film subject. But moviemakers rarely know what to do with obsession. They make it trivial, cartoonish. A superfiend itches to blow up the planet -- big hairy deal. An id-monster like Freddy Krueger dices and slices kids as they sleep. Zzzzzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Heavenly Trip Toward Hell | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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