Word: aimlessly
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...environment; but a wholesale spontaneous boycott of the "movies" by the people en masse,--and at present 20,000,000 attend the "pictures" in one week,--will bring up the level of production as nothing else can. The producers can take their choice of cutting out the usual aimless bromides, and bringing up the average to the standard now set by a few brilliant exceptions, or of going out of business entirely. Censorship will be hopelessly inadequate; the only effective substitute is now being applied by the huge moving picture public, on a massive, slow-but-sure scale...
...they run and run as they read". And this statement by the author sums up the whole proposition very neatly, in that the book is imbued with the "running" fever; the author runs--jazzily, rejoicing in his own self-confessed naughtiness; and the reader runs likewise--mainly in aimless, frantic circles! Until finally both author and reader are hopelessly weary of themselves, the book, and each other. There is not even the jauntiness that at least justified Fitzgerald's earlier works; he has fed his muse on modern highballs--and now she has the headache...