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Gaarder, who is married and the father of two sons ages 10 and 18, teaches at a high school in Oslo. He wrote Sophie's World to fill a gap. Stores were full of New Age pap and other mystical mush, but there were no books that would introduce young people to serious philosophy. By trying to blend fantasy with head-cracking summaries of deep thought, Gaarder feared that he had "sat down between two stools. But I was mistaken. Sophie's World fell on top of all the stools...
...avant-garde who are even more provincial, unlistenable and irrelevant than their counterparts in the U.S. "England has always been far less culturally democratic than America, and I was looked down on," he observes with some asperity. "They didn't listen to whether what I was producing was conventional pap or contemporary music in its own right -- which I think...
...this all TV viewers want from entertainment news? Tabloid shows such as Hard Copy and Inside Edition, for all their voyeuristic overkill, have demonstrated that there is an audiencefor news about celebrities that isn't publicity pap. CNN's Showbiz Today, in its somewhat plodding plain-vanilla style, at least picks up on real trends and occasionally flirts with controversy. (During the recent influx of Cuban refugees, only Showbiz sought the reaction of such Cuban-American entertainers as Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia...
...committee "by a one-vote partisan majority is one that doesn't have any legs or wings." Stark rejoined sarcastically: "I just think he's exactly what Tennessee deserves, and I wish him Godspeed in the Senate." As for Cooper's plan, Stark says, "His bill is all pap and blather. Everybody's got to love it because it doesn't do anything...
...disgusted by the stomach-churning pap that passes for "film criticism" these days that you are tempted to grab the nearest assault rifle (well, not as near with the passage of the new Brady Bill), go out, and engage in the wanton massacre of Janet Maslin, Vincent Canby and Stanley Kauffman. Especially Stanley Kauffman, who seems to have an unerring talent of giving thumbs up to the worst movies in the business. (If you don't believe me, consider the fact that he really liked "The Muppet Christmas Carol." I went to see "The Muppet Christmas Carol" With a little...