Word: endlessly
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American 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...
...their endless struggle to please and appease special interests and large voter blocs, most of the 535 members of Congress have succeeded mainly in diminishing themselves. Their fundamental obligation to order the nation's finances has given way to the politician's primal instinct: inflict no pain; ruffle no feathers; get re-elected...
Although Kissin's schedule is rapidly filling up -- there is a European tour coming up in two weeks and a trip to Japan early next year -- he is still too young and idealistic to have been worn down by the demands of performance: the endless traveling, the constant repetition of pieces, the interviewers asking the same questions. He speaks of music in lofty terms. "True art gives birth to good as opposed to evil. Right now we are going through a very turbulent time. The goal of musicians is to make our art, which is humane, kind and international, prevail...
Reconstruction has been slowed by bureaucratic delays and seemingly endless feasibility studies. A year after the quake, $630,568,706 in federal and state funds has been approved for relief and recovery. But only a third of the 38,000 people who requested emergency housing help have received it so far. Thousands more are still without permanent homes, a plight mainly affecting the poor because the quake destroyed so much low-cost housing...
None of this excuses Israel's endless stalling on meeting the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, nor Washington's reluctance to lean harder on its ally to do so. Nor can Israel be encouraged to believe that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait might somehow give it an excuse to hang on to the West Bank and Gaza for another 23 years. But the two wrongs simply are not equal. And any attempt to pretend that they are can only confuse and weaken the world community's response to Saddam Hussein's blatant aggression...