Word: trivializing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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General della Rovere (in Italian). Back in his top form of the 1940s, Roberto (Open City) Rossellini directs a poignant piece about a trivial swindler-brilliantly played by Vittorio De Sica-who stops impersonating the role of a wartime hero to become...
General della Rovere (in Italian). Back in his top form of the 1940s, Roberto (Open City) Rossellini directs a poignant piece about a trivial swindler - brilliantly played by Vittorio De Sica - who stops impersonating the role of a wartime hero to become...
...Godot who never comes, the young boy he sends as his messenger with news of his imminent coming, the tree and the rock (the play's only two props), the talk about the two thieves who may or may not have been crucified with Christ--it is as senseless, trivial, and disorganized as it seems to be. "Has he a beard?" asks Didi softly. "Yes sir," answers the boy. "Fair or...(he hesitates)...or black?" "I think it's white, sir." Silence. "Christ have mercy...
Even to the most ardent supporter of Turkey's new military regime, the mass trial on Yassiada Island of hundreds of officials of the old civilian government seemed to be off to a shaky start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...
Meanwhile, the pool reports from the Kennedy homes became even more trivial in another sign of the Kennedy camp's confidence. The reports, prepared this morning by Mary McGrory of the Washington Star, referred to Kennedy as the "President-elect," and showed that the Kennedy clan was relaxing and merely waiting for Nixon to admit defeat...