Word: meaninglessness
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...marvelously funny, but Monteith & Rand show their real talent in improvisation. They ask the crowd to supply a setting and a couple of sentences, and they do the rest. One night last week, for example, the audience put them in Moscow, ordered them to begin the scene with a meaningless sentence, "He who hesitates laughs last," and while they were at it work in a reference to Christina Onassis. There was a second's hesitation while two very fast computers scanned the possibilities, and Monty started muttering, "He who hesitates laughs last," in a thick Russian accent...
...code. Sometimes the pictures simply amplify the words. Two pages of dark, roiling skyscape follow lines on Pisan's "undoubtedly various" clouds. More often than not though, a photographic sight helps explain a sound. A line like "Can Grande's grin like Tommy Cochran's" is meaningless without the knowledge that Tommy Cochran was "a kid" Pound knew as a youth, and without an image of the statue Can Grande della Scala in Verona. The statue and the grin are here...
...feel free..." He catches his words just as they leave his mouth and with the sense of humor and perspective that may be his saving grace, adds, "Well, you know what they say--'We are made to feel free by exercising a series of meaningless choices." He sighs. "And I seem to be thriving...
This all would be laughable if it weren't so important. The Bonn agenda may be relatively meaningless, but the drama of Jimmy Carter on the world stage is critical The measure of the competence of the American President has become about as significant an aftermath of the summit as anything else...
...ball game. It really got Bobby's bile up when the high-paid hitters couln't hit homeruns during clutch situations. They're pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars to play a game and he had to leave home and sweat away eight hours a day at meaningless work. By the time he would get home he'd be too tired to do anything but drink beer and watch a ball game, a captive audience. There were so many useless people in America -- he was grinding his teeth now -- ball players who can't win, philosophy students...