Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woman walks into a bar. The regulars instantly size her up: "Uptown, East Side, college educated. Probably reuses her grocery bags. Charter subscriber to Working Woman magazine. Saw The Big Chill three times. Plays Trivial Pursuit on the weekends with friends. What's she doing here on a Monday? It's Murphy Brown night...
...record tax hikes are all Republican products: the Reagan Administration's 1982 increase ($98 billion over four years) and the new taxes of 1990 for which Bush now apologizes ($107.6 billion over four years). Clinton's plan would actually increase taxes about $92 billion over four years -- hardly trivial, but no blue-ribbon winner...
...brightest members of that small club is Jerry Seinfeld. The Long Island native was perhaps the quintessential yuppie comic of the '80s: his larky, laid-back observations about the trivial pursuits of modern life -- buying candy at a movie theater, riding with your dog in the front seat of the car -- were funny, recognizable, nonthreatening. Now he is the centerpiece of nbc's hottest sitcom. Since the series made its debut in January 1991, Seinfeld has improved steadily in the ratings, especially among young, upscale viewers searching for life after thirtysomething. Sign of a show on the make: NBC promoted...
...previously expected to seek help from the government. It awakened many gay men, sick or well, to spiritual values. It partly bridged a widespread gap between gay men and lesbians, a chasm based on arcane feminist dialectics or simple lack of shared life-style, because those concerns seemed trivial when compared with life and death. Says Eric Marcus of San Francisco, author of Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, a new oral history of the movement: "In the mature sense of the word community, you can make a case that there really wasn't much...
...trivial matter? Not to Perot. For six months he bombarded Mason and his editor, Jeffrey Krames, with letters and phone calls from himself, his sister Bette and boyhood acquaintances who insisted Perot did so ride a horse. He even sent Krames a poster-size map of Texarkana, with his route outlined block by block, and pretyped letters of retraction, needing only a signature. He never...