Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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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...
...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...
...Psycho, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in January, runs 362 pages in edited manuscript. Crawls, actually. Barely distinguishable chapters are stuffed with the brand names of expensive suits, shoes and wristwatches, endless spoofs of nightclubs and restaurants and rambling reviews of pop records. The litany of the trivial is intentional, though Ellis seems to be writing for people who take forever to get the point. Instead of a plot, there is a tapeworm narrative that makes it unnecessary to distinguish the beginning of the novel from...
These are not trivial details, and Harvard's acceptance of an endowed chair is more than using bad money for good. By naming an endowed chair after him, Harvard allows Prince Turki to cover up for his atrocities--to buy a fresh image from Harvard U. "With the establishment of this new professorship," said Dean Tosteson, "a scholar who will work towards the goal of improving health and relieving the burden of sick and suffering will always be known at Harvard as the Prince Turki Professor...
...civic crusades also carry danger. There are so many on behalf of so many causes, including relatively trivial ones, that their energy can become scattered. They threaten to be no longer civic but merely uncivil, dismissive of the rights of others...