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...back onto alarm stage one--bread and water--until the first guy could get the story of the treatment of ourselves and Elizabeth to the world, at which point the Secret Police wouldn't want to send any coffins with corpses out of their pris ns over such trivial points as seeing one's fiancee or getting a retrial...
...Grapes of Wrath to The Last Hurrah, is an artist of enormous sweep. But he has been guilty of certain venial sins, among them boozy sentimentality and the use of overfamiliar stock characters. In Bogdanovich's eyes every blemish is a virtue, and no detail is too trivial to examine. He traces, for example, the history of a gesture first used by Harry Carey and later mimicked by John Wayne. Far more interesting than the critical narrative are four interviews interspersed with glimpses of Ford movies. Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda are all in their 60s; they...
...auto industry, the president of General Motors has not reappeared. He was there on the first page, sleepy and cross because a defective electric blanket had given him a bad night. He tinkered with the blanket, fixed it, and drove out of sight in his Cadillac, headed for work. Trivial stuff, apparently, but the practiced Hailey reader knows that it may be important. In good time, surely, the author will reveal whether excessive G forces on the freeway caused the Cadillac's power ashtrays to malfunction, catalyzing a shake-up in G.M.'s ashtray division, or whether...
Clearly, leaving college can turn into a purposeless drift through trivial jobs and futile distractions. The specter of a dropout's destroying himself on heroin haunts many a parent (though the prevalence of drugs on campus makes life in academe less reassuring than it used...
...hour show aimed at children aged six to eleven, is purportedly devoted to helping children question and deal with ideas. It is peopled with puppets and three children who ask disarming questions. There are animations, films and music. Curiosity Shop is inoffensive and cute, but on the whole trivial. And it is debatable how far a child-or a show-can go with questions like "What would it be like without thumbs...