Word: trivialize
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...over two weeks watching her father -- the gruff, authoritarian and inspiring Hugh Rodham -- slowly slip away. She comes from a family so bizarrely intact that the whole group went on the Clintons' honeymoon to Acapulco. The extended family had dinner together most weekends and played marathon games of Trivial Pursuit and Hungarian rummy, a card game so byzantine in its bylaws that only close friends or relatives can participate...
...turns on "Mr. M": "Yours were the lessons in whispering, there are men who are teaching us to shout." Gagnon is perhaps a little old for the role of Isabel Dyson, but her believability as a buoyant sharp-tongued hockey-playing, poetry-quoting high school girl renders that criticism trivial...
...public view last month after the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility issued a 161-page report finding that Sessions has abused the privileges of his job. The charges range from the serious (not paying taxes on business travel that was later deemed to be personal) to the trivial (hauling his dog Pete in an FBI car). Adding to the theatrics is the director's wife Alice, who enjoyed many of the disputed perks and has accused FBI officials of plotting against...
Obviously, I was inclined to disagree with these elaborately exhausting, although ultimately trivial, criticisms of HQ, criticisms against which I'm certain the magazine can defend itself. But if the author is that intent, I'm sure he and I can find a more appropriate forum (and topic) in which to discuss the quality of that "verbally incontinent" publication for which I write. At present, I write to affirm HQ's committment to and investment in both racial equality and multiculturalism...
...Thomasons keep a house in Little Rock, so the two couples see a lot of each other -- boating on the Arkansas River, sitting around the Clinton kitchen playing Trivial Pursuit, and taking vacations together. But Thanksgiving weekend at the Thomasons' new house in California turned into a media event, complete with helicopters overhead and boats bearing paparazzi...