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...lawsuits finish, it is hard to say. When one thinks of the financial problems that beset the few really great small museums founded on a single person's taste -- the Frick in New York City or the Phillips Collection in Washington -- the idea of wasting $98 million on this trivial package seems obscene. The Hammer Museum cannot evolve into a serious collection. It would have difficulty making a mark as a site of temporary shows, since there is too much competition from other Los Angeles museums. Perhaps, as one critic suggested, the place could be converted into the Armand Hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America's Vainest Museum | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...more important now because the deadline is approaching. It makes the exams look trivial," said Hector R. Rocha '94, who has a brother stationed in Saudi Arabia. "It puts it in perspective. These things are stupid compared to that...

Author: By Benjamin O. Davis, | Title: Jan. 14, Not Jan. 15, Worries Students | 1/11/1991 | See Source »

...only quotation from a member of the group of counter-protestors is when I am quoted as saying, "I don't think it's appropriate to hold political demonstrations on a church." This statement is completely trivial to the larger issue and was only offered in response to a reporter's question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Defending Defense | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

Cutler asked the court last week if he could give Gotti a change of clothes for his next court appearance. Apparently considering the matter too trivial, the judge made no ruling. But a spare $1,500 suit was seen in the don's cell. For Gotti, having to show up in a wrinkled suit might truly be cruel and unusual punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still The Teflon Don? | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...light of these tasks, the Corporation's stated preferences for a "recognized scholar" with a "keen sense of management" are more important than the limited, and by comparison, trivial objectives of student political activists...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: One Vote Against Democracy | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

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