Word: trivializations
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...Bible lecture last week so I made a pitiful request to the others on the line for pizza: "Could I go ahead of you? Please." And, much to my surprise, all three people let me cut them and allowed me to purchase my slice. Though this event may seem trivial to you, it has restored my faith in humanity. Really. --Andrew K. Mandel...
...high-energy, free-spirited dance. But for many of the numbers, the movement on stage plays an integral part in communicating the writer's ideas to the audience. For example, the song "Information O.D." has the cast typing furiously away at computers as they try to remember important or trivial pieces of information that get lost in their hectic lives...
...strange phosphorescence. As predicted, the approach of the year 2000 is coaxing all the crazies out of the woodwork. They bring with them a twitchy hybrid of spirituality and pop obsession. Part Christian, part Asian mystic, part Gnostic, part X-Files, it mixes immemorial longings with the latest in trivial sentiments. When it all dissolves in overheated computer chat and harmless New Age vaporings, who cares? But sometimes it matters, for both the faithful and the people who care about them. Sometimes it makes death a consummation devoutly, all too devoutly, to be desired...
...opened," Marnie Thompson, a Tulane University graduate student, says from across the street. "I still think it's ugly, but I like it now in a Vegas kind of way. It's bringing money, jobs, lights and police to a neighborhood that needs them. With all that, it seems trivial to quibble over aesthetics...
...kind of felt strongly that [The Dartmouth was] wrong," Hitchins said. "The only information [available] is trivial...