Word: trivializing
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...propriety of releasing inside versions of "secret" cabinet meetings. Wilson claims in these memoirs to have been against the resumption of arms sales to South Africa, an assertion that Crossman's diaries show to be false. Wilson and Crossman conflict on many other points, mostly ones that seem fairly trivial to outsiders but that have remained issses of passionate conceern to the Labour party's left wing...
...Mother and the Whore. A little-known masterpiece that deserves to be seen. Jean Eustache has turned trivial and quotidian dialogue into a powerful commentary on deep and diverse issues. Four hours long but worth every minute. Jean Pierre Leaud is even better here that he is in Truffaut's mold. One of the most thought-provoking films of recent years...
...WAGGING IN Brooklyn garbage and a bopping Elton John soundtrack open Sidney Lumet's overexcited mongrel of a film about a bank robbery. A high-spirited, sporadically funny film about a trivial event, Dog Day Afternoon is at odds with itself. Its mixed parentage--one part action shoot-out, one part ethnic sit-com, and two parts documentary--makes it an entertaining enough mutt, but hard to control. It wanders in several directions at once and over-whelms its charming moments in tedious incoherence...
...most trivial spectacles of our daily life, our eye, charged with thought neglects, as would a classical tragedy, every image that does not assist the action of the play and retains only those that may help to make its purpose intelligible. But if in place of our eye, it should be a purely material object, a photographic plate that has watched the action, then what we shall see in the courtyard of the Institute for example, will be, instead of the dignified emergence of an Academician who is going to hail a cab, his staggering gait, his precautions to avoid...
...latest battle was between the predominantly Moslem community of Tripoli (pop. 200,000) and Christians from the mountain town of Zgharta (pop. 12,000) five miles away. It erupted after a seemingly trivial incident: a minor auto accident involving Tripoli and Zgharta drivers. After a Zghartawi was assaulted, armed clansmen threw up a roadblock on the outskirts of Tripoli and halted traffic. When a bus carrying some 25 Moslems reached the roadblock, gunmen herded the passengers into the road. Without warning, a guerrilla opened fire with a submachine gun, slaughtering twelve Moslems...