Word: purposeless
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...from pursuing government thugs intent on annihilating them. The first 250 pages are engrossing and entertaining, but then the fantasy that King has concocted falls flat, the spell he's cast is broken, and the reader is left with a runaway novel that leads to a stale, purposeless conclusion. King's recent books (The Dead Zone, The Stand) have not been up to the level of Carrie, the tight, well-paced drama that gave him his first major success; in Firestarter, an overpriced cheap thrill that becomes an exercise in endurance, King re-tills painfully familiar soil but grows...
...bombing resumed on Dec. 18 and lasted for twelve days. The moral indignation rose with each day. The proposition that the U.S. Government was deliberately slaughtering civilians in a purposeless campaign of terror went unchallenged. Yet Hanoi radio, on Jan. 4, 1973, cited a preliminary figure of about 1,300 persons killed after twelve days of bombing; many must have been military personnel, for antiaircraft batteries were a primary objective. I received incredibly bitter letters from erstwhile friends, from angry citizens. (None of them wrote me in January when the agreement was reached.) It seemed to be taken for granted...
...script consists of transcriptions of the debates haphazardly strung together with scraps of purposeless personal interchange. It is hard to take seriously a play with straight lines like "Stephen Douglas, get your feet off that table...
...that is now difficult to locate. "The lack of leadership is effect and not cause," says Historian Eugene Genovese. "It would be very difficult to point out a set of values about which you could say that most Americans could agree. I think our society has become largely purposeless...
...what exactly they are doing. Maldonado is the only three-dimensional protagonist--a confused middle-aged stud who resembles a Velasco painting. Maldonado's triad of women--the seductive Mary, loyal Rebecca and unattainable Sarah--fill the traditional female novelistic roles of whore, mother and virgin. Maldonado's purposeless orders come from two spies, the nationless Timon and the clove-smelling Lebanese Ayub, and a Mexican economics professor Bernstein and the bullying Director General. The only thing which binds all characters is their obsession with Mexican oil. Oil permeates the entire novel, motivating violence and friendship. It is everywhere--smeared...