Word: meaninglessness
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...full sweep of Picasso's effect on modern art will probably never be documented-not because it is unapparent, but simply because nobody, for 30 years or more, has been untouched by him, so that the lesser details involve meaningless talents and run out in peripheries and shallows. He established collage as a formal device. His Cubist constructions steered the course of modern sculpture away from mass and toward open forms and rigging. His sheet-metal Guitar of 1912 was as prophetic of future sculpture as Demoiselles had been of later painting. His combination of found objects with metal...
...life, Jacqueline Roque, 47, whom he married in 1961. The old man made his final dive into the pre-classical past, becoming more than ever the inaccessible Triton or satyr, Homo Mediterraneus padded in nymphs; that myth was his official interface with an insatiable and by now meaningless public, and the work went on behind...
...phony as was his promise to end the Vietnam War, which he extended instead to all of Indochina. By insisting upon the retention of the entire fabric of the old Selective Service Act at an annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium's neutrality during WWI, calling it "a mere scrap of paper...
Taluncci unearths the will of all people to political submission, dissecting the lives of Bostonians whose last names begin with letters from A through G. Plugging in to a network of static-ridden, over-priced, meaningless conversations, the director uses three-minute vignettes to cut through the mirage of Boston life. Wiring together the private agonies of the individuals he explores, Taluncci articulates, almost consciously, the poverty of the mass...
President Bok's attitude was equally disturbing. He appeared to sanction Kyle's pronouncement by intimating that he was party to an earlier agreement that excluded press coverage, an agreement made meaningless by the conspicuous absence of press representatives...