Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charges in the disciplinary cases range from fighting and disobeying guards' commands to spitting and cursing, and punishment can be as severe as extended solitary confinement Bialecki says that the often trivial charges can be filed by guards on arbitrary grounds...
...wrong with a calm, comfy, Cadillac-smooth ride. But at times President Reagan glides along altogether too smoothly, virtually unaware of the gritty, often bumpy policymaking processes of his Administration. His lapses are more than a forgivable matter of mixing up history at a press conference or misrepresenting a trivial budget figure now and again. Reagan is remarkably disengaged from the substance of his job. His aides no longer dismiss as glib the theory that Reagan has a movie-star approach to governing. "In Reagan's mind," says a White House adviser, "somebody does the lighting, somebody else does...
...mazed out and shot out. They're tired of video games. Atari must compete against movies, novels, TV, anything that makes up America's six hours a day of leisure time. It is criminal in my mind that Atari did not think of a game like Trivial Pursuit first. I don't believe the industry will be a hit again until it rekindles its imaginative resources. If not, it's bye-bye to the industry...
...Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Oklahoma had granted a temporary injunction. The appeals court rescinded its order last Tuesday, but constitutional experts were still shocked that the court had agreed, however briefly, to the prior restraint. "For 21 days there was a censorship order outstanding against an absolutely trivial publication," said First Amendment Attorney James Goodale indignantly...
...young boy's painful need to grow up and an old man's passion to recall his youth. If only Steinbeck, an innately modest man, had been more modest as a writer, he might not have been destined to whipsaw himself between the pretentious and the trivial. It was his bad luck that he happened to be one of the last writers to dream, in all innocence, of writing the Great American Novel...