Word: meaninglessness
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...competition, although labeled "World Championship" by its promoters, is meaningless as an indicaton of national tennis superiority. Neither of the top two players in the world, Australians Rod Laver and Tony Roche, chose to enter the tournament...
...Taylor's house near Phoenix, people are seen hazily through glass or as dim reflections superimposed on living-room walls and furniture. Dialogue is non-existent or meaningless; Daria walks by chattering wives at the pool without being seen, retreating into a natural rock cavern leading to the house. Inside the house, two groups of businessmen stand on opposite ends of a transparent real-estate development map trying to bluff each other, their desperate quiet energy passing unhindered through the colored plastic. Emotions are unhesitatingly suppressed, language conceals obscure truths. Daria outside, unable to cry over Mark's death, plunges...
...victory, unfortunately, was meaningless, at least with respect to the Ivy and Eastern standings. Unless Brown loses its final game at Dartmouth next Saturday-and this is highly unlikely since Cornell defeated the Indians, 14-0 last night-Harvard will be unable to move past the Bruins into second place in the Ivy League...
...INEVITABLE. meaningless climax... a small kno? of people refused to leave, and long after the crowds had gone, were still there being revolutionaries. So the police charged, flailing their pricks, finally allowed to do their part of the theater, becoming in an instant superpigs. They chased the group of about 300 into the park. My girlfriend got beaten. She was in tears when I found her again. I threw a snowball somewhere in the direction of police. We went farther into the park to avoid the cops, but other groups are coming down from other ends...
...lost. we are angry, it is nothing: we make it out of the park; it is over. It is meaningless and worse, it is every bit as unreal as going to a class or writing about something or doing just about anything except lucking...