Word: meaninglessness
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Restrictions on condominium conversion were adopted two years ago; they are crucial, for without them rent control is all but meaningless. The pressure on the city's housing market is great enough that within a decade, most forecasters conclude, the bulk of city apartments would have become condominiums. Rents might still be controlled, but very few people would be paying them. And so the dispute over condo conversion seems the likeliest battleground for tenants and developers to fight it out. For the ideological reasons outlined above, large parts of the traditional CCA constituency may become supporters of the developers...
...scene looks is what True Confessions so obviously lacks for the rest of the picture. Ulu Grosbard's bland and uninteresting direction more often looks like a television situation comedy than a major feature film. Not only are the colors and backgrounds either washed-out or meaningless, but their lifelessness saps the movie of any feeling for the location or the era. Besides the old cars and wide-lapelled suits there is little hint of where or when the movie is taking place...
...scenes. However, his successes on the comedy side barely compensate for his failure to turn the romantic spark between Reynolds and the new first lady Beverly D'Angelo into a flame. Even in comedy, the director at times stretches for just a little bit too much, for that extra, meaningless laugh...
Every six years, the PRI's presidential candidate is handpicked by his predecessor before a meaningless election. This year's choice, Programming and Budget Minister Miguel de la Madrid, is a Kennedy School-educated, free-market conservative who says he favors closer cooperation with the United States. He will work to attract foreign investment and to increase the production of luxury goods. Though de la Madrid and his party can be praised for giving Mexico a half century of "stability" while much of Latin America has been engulfed in turmoil, it is this same party that has tolerated the existence...
Dominating offensive play and holding the Bears to limited yardage on defense, the Rams scored 24 points before the Bears finally countered with a meaningless touchdown late in the final period...