Word: trivializations
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...American Greetings' Care Bears (about $20), which the company produces in a range of models from sleepy to grumpy. Macy's stores in Northern California expect to sell out their entire population of 50,000 stuffed bears, including mink ones priced at $200. The trendy board game Trivial Pursuit (price: $25) is hard to find in stores, and even sales of Monopoly are up about 10% from last year. Thanks in part to booming sales of G.I. Joe dolls, stodgy Hasbro Industries, which stayed out of the videogame wars, expects to increase its profits by about 60% this...
Carol Monica, manager of the newly-opened Games People Play, agreed that holiday shoppers are more inclined to purchase "whimsical things" than at other times in the year. Monica said the game "Trivial Pursuit," a trivia quiz contest, "has been a $40 hotcake...
...erosion of civil liberties in the U.S.," it measures 17 in. by 34 in. and features black-and-white photographs of U.S. Government buildings (the IRS, FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and of police riot squads and jail cells. Each date is annotated with one or more reminders, trivial as well as grim, of the loss of freedom; few may recall that on Aug. 1, 1973, the Washington Post reported a private investigation launched by the Nixon White House on the Smothers brothers. Can Doublethink T shirts and Big Brother barbecue aprons be far behind...
Rena Leib was the second candidate to reach quota. "It was a pretty good showing for a first time candidate and that feels good," she said yesterday, adding that she hoped the school committee would "focus on setting policy and holding administration to it, rather than wasting time on trivial grievances...
...travel to San Francisco and New York City and will also be seen at the Pompidou Center in Paris. It deserves the audience. Anyone who thinks that all the major American artists have been locked into their historical profile should see it, and repent. Krasner has never been a trivial painter, and sometimes her work, as Rose convincingly argues, has been touched with real grandeur...