Word: trivializing
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...FACT, more than a handful of women do decide to pose for Playboy, then there are some problems in this society whose roots lie far deeper than The Crimson or Playboy and which would make The Crimson's little gesture seem trivial indeed. Does The Crimson really believe it can or should protect society from itself...
...ordinary, but pretty trivial...
Finally, it's a trivial but perhaps telling point that the process of visiting classes is referred to as "shopping." There is an attitude far too prevalent among students at every university these days that an education is a consumer product you buy, a service which is performed for you, rather than a process in which the student must participate, and in which he or she is responsible for his or her own performance. Maybe I'm reading too much into a world, but in the context of many remarks and statements I have heard and read lately...
...President Reagan, calls on our European allies to sever economic relations with Libya, which has been flimsily termed a "terrorist state" by disturbing numbers of centrists as well as the right. All this furor results from some recent acts of irrational slaughter that claimed fewer than 50 civilians--a trivial toll in comparison with, for example, the Lebanese citizens killed during the Israeli occupation of that country, or for that matter with last year's butchery by U.S.-funded Nicaraguan "contras" and the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa. In the recent airport attacks, a handful of Americans died...
...probably the first movie ever to be based on a board game. It is certainly the first one to go into the theaters with three different endings. Good news for the makers of some future edition of Trivial Pursuit. The bad news for everyone else is that the colorfully named characters from Clue --Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock et al.--remain flat enough to be stored in a box, and that all three endings are unpersuasive. (If choose you must, opt for Ending C.) Writer-Director Jonathan Lynn apparently felt so obliged to maintain the game's conventions...