Word: meaninglessness
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...convey things as they really are, events as they really occurred, in all their beauty, in all their terror, in all their pathos. In this sense, Idi Amin Dada is documentary at its worst, a combination of cheap shots, superficial political commentary, and cultural racism, which results in a meaningless comic portrait of a genocidal dictator. A Swiss director, Barbet Schroeder, took a crew to Uganda in 1974, after having received express permission to do a film portrait of the Ugandan President, who had assumed power in a coup d'etat...
...destiny, and had moved toward it, unaware that her destiny was really stalking her. That had to be the only explanation. And yet none of them could really believe it, even now. They had all made choices. That had to have some meaning. They could not believe choices were meaningless. Three of them were still alive....Even she, at the very end, had made a choice...
Jerome Miller wants to help juveniles [Aug. 30], but he should consider the needs of society. As a police officer, I am frequently disgusted with the lack of accountability juvenile delinquents are required to show for their actions. Laws without penalties are meaningless...
Such intangible advantages were not meaningless, since the entire last-gasp Reagan strategy was to stop Ford from going over the top on the first ballot. The President's failure to do so would be a damaging psychological blow to supporters who considered him a sure winner. Ford's strength would also presumably wane as delegates not legally or morally bound to his candidacy felt free on later ballots to express their true sentiments...
...told them that if the rulings are left to him, he will not tolerate abstentions and will demand that delegates back the candidate they were chosen to support. Declared Rhodes: "If you decide that the delegates can ignore the results of a presidential preference primary, then the primaries are meaningless...