Word: mindlessness
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...plug the leak would be for the Administration to take some steam out of the domestic economy-but such a course would bring results slowly. Some businessmen insist that the Government needlessly hampers the efforts of U.S. firms to sell abroad by mindless application of domestic anti-trust laws, by tax penalties, and by weak commercial staffs in embassies. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, last week argued for legislation creating new export tax incentives, which are often of little help...
...last calculation). Similarly, most of ABC's heavily shilled "second season" has had it: Blue Light, The Baron, Henry Phyfe. Some of the situation comedies, such as Gilligan's Island and Corner Pyle, are apparently too bad to die, but a few of the most mindless, among them Mona McCluskey and The Smothers Brothers, ran out of gags-just as My Mother the Car has mercifully...
While solving the kidnaping, he flushes a few other rare loony birds from the scented foliage of Southern California. All are played with just the right sort of strutty assurance. Mindless beauty is embodied by Pamela Tiffin as the victim's turned-on daughter and by Robert Wagner as a glamour-boy private pilot, both up to their pearly ears in self-parody. Arthur Hill adds knowing touches as the lovesick family lawyer, who hopes to bridge the years between himself and Pamela with the help of isometric exercises. Strikingly cast are Julie Harris as a ginmill songbird hooked...
...Oscar. Even at its awful best, this mindless Joseph E. Levine epic will hardly win anything but booby prizes. One can easily imagine the scene next year at the famous ceremonies in Santa Monica: the pit orchestra bravely muddling through Percy Faith's flail-it-with-music themes from The Oscar while an Academy spokesman announces that all categories have been hastily revised to permit a few special awards. The probable Oscar winners...
...answer-again-is a simple no. We are using that force-and only that force-that is necessary to stop this aggression. Our numbers have increased in Viet Nam because the aggression of others has increased in Viet Nam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation...