Word: meaninglessness
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...real problem with the Leverett production is at the same time one of its great strengths: Smith chooses to omit the entire comic subplot of the play written by collaborator William Rowley (without which the title is nearly meaningless). This leaves the play almost unbelievably short--the whole thing takes an hour-and-a-half, including a 15-minute intermission and scene changes. Along with the director's rapid-fire pacing of the scenes, this insures that The Changeling won't give audiences an overdose of post-Shakespearean blank verse--which most of the actors cope well with anyway...
...Quebecois, but to limit the terms of the cultural question to the macro-political arena is to seriously understate what needs to be done. Unfortunately, the particular terms under which Levesque has chosen to do cultural battle are restrictive, and in the context of Canadian federalism, almost meaningless...
...camping in town. But we haven't heard from the consumers who don't have the luxury of taking three months off to lobby Congress." Besides, President Carter had promised to veto the bill as inflationary. Said Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas: "This is just a meaningless charade." The House voted down the bill, 268 to 150. One farmer filled the legislative chamber with a raucous "B-o-o-o." But most were silent...
...face..." Sara Loundes Dylan plays Clara, while Ronnie Blakelee plays Mrs. Dylan, and Joan Baez is the Woman in White. Basically, this is the movie--it appears nothing was planned, nothing "directed," and the cinema verite we are left with is a pastiche of extraordinarily fine concert film and meaningless vignettes, none very illuminating, some extremely offensive...
...Crimson snapped out of the losing streak at Wake Forest on April Fool's Day, cruising to four singles victories and one doubles win before high-tailing it out of Winston-Salem during the meaningless third doubles contest in order to catch their plane back...