Word: useless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...adult life, Benjamin Freeman has been on a buy-now-never-pay-later kick. At 55, he has rarely held a job; he collects elegant, useless gewgaws-custom-made pool cues, secret listening devices-mainly to solace his loneliness by substituting objects for friends. He has become, in fact, a confirmed charge-o-maniac, who seeks public notoriety and recognition by becoming the ultimate delinquent consumer in a consumption-mad society...