Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe Breathed is trying to be pathetic, to prove that he can be a subtle comedian by being obvious. Maybe he is repeating Dan Quayle jokes every week to beat us so senseless that we begin to see his deep, hidden artistic motive. He may yet prove that there is humor in bad humor. If that is his aim, he is repudiating most of his last two years of "Bloom County," and he must be a very disenchanted cartoonist indeed...
...keep the plan afloat, but each move served only to further sour relations with Israel. When Washington passed word that it hoped the Israeli government would remain intact, Labor leaders denounced the bid as a "gross interference in Israel's internal affairs." When the Bush Administration described as "senseless and tragic" a Palestinian attack on % an Israeli bus two weeks ago that resulted in 14 deaths, Israeli officials were furious that the U.S. had not denounced the act as terrorism. And when a U.S. official implied that Israel and the P.L.O., using American intermediaries, had engaged in secret contacts, Labor...
...somehow, some people stumble out of Harvard with an education without peer. This must be attributed to those individuals among the student body and the faculty who are willing to take on the senseless obstacles Harvard places before them. As this University grows older, will a Harvard education mean anything at all but a few scratchings on a piece of sheepskin...
...reaches, splintering into smaller groups and allegedly assaulting one hapless victim after another. Finally, one pack came upon a 28-year-old woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. According to police, they chased her into a gully, then spent the next half an hour beating her senseless with a rock and a metal pipe, raping her and leaving her for dead. When she was found three hours later, she had lost three-quarters of her blood and had lapsed into a coma...
...barrel of a gun pressed against your temple. Each day you have 15 minutes to shower, brush your teeth and wash your underwear in the bathroom sink. Your bed is a mat on the floor. One of your fellow hostages tries to escape, and the guards beat him senseless. Another tries to commit suicide. One day you too reach the edge of your sanity. You begin furiously pounding your head against a wall. Blood oozes from your scalp and smears down your face...