Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...stages his cycle of black experience in this century. Outwardly, little happens in this slice of life in a Pittsburgh luncheonette in 1968, yet the play subtly re-enacts the era's black political dialectic. The finale is pure serendipity: a petty street crime at once appalling and ennobling, pointless and profound...
...Minister Andrei Lukanov's inability to alleviate chronic fuel and food shortages sparked weeks of street demonstrations. Last week after a four-day strike that paralyzed much of the country, Lukanov resigned. Appearing on television, he blamed the opposition for blocking his efforts toward reform, adding that it was "pointless" to * continue as Prime Minister. In Sofia demonstrators greeted the news with dancing and champagne...
...completely pointless," said Melinda M. Sick...
...abrupt frames which lopped off heads and feet created a jarring view of the scene. These frames were unoriginally employed--ever since Toulouse-Lautrec, the arbitrary, non-classical frame has been employed to make audience members re-evaluate their perspective, but here that re-evaluation seemed pointless. To say the least, the frames have been more successfully employed in the past...
Tragically, it seems pointless even to speculate. Harvard students, with the exception of some ROTC students, are not part of the dying class, and the Roberts family is. We members of the American elite have a great bargain going: we're content to let the unfortunates in our "all-volunteer" army do the dying, and policy makers will let us get away with...