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Word: aimless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sloppily executed, with lack of rehearsal, perhaps, contributing to an aura of tentativeness, the performers occasionally sagging like the deadly Persian rugs that hang over the stage. Mayer has staged his play in a series of tableaux, the colorfully costumed actors moving dutifully into position, one character usually wandering aimlessly in the middle. Act One has a lot of exposition, a lot of aimless wandering: in Act Two the plot perks up and Mayer's comic invention peaks. Certainly this is sped along by the appearance of the Genie of the Lamp, whose entrances and exits have been hilariously choreographed...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Aladdinescence | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

...have been killed by police after hours since the curfew was imposed in mid-January in an attempt to control El Salvador's guerrilla war. Most of the victims, according to the Human Rights Commission in San Salvador, were not dangerous insurgents but innocent civilians: some mentally retarded, aimless drunks, a milkman in Santa Ana who started his morning rounds too early. Nevertheless, military and security forces are enthusiastic about being able to deny the hours of darkness to the guerrillas, and thus to uncover arms caches by observing suspicious nighttime activity. "It is fantastic," said a police major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Tactical Retreat | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...going nowhere; Wood's view of moviedom--war as a ribald chaos prevents the play from establishing any dramatic focus or momentum, and the act lapses into a number of extraneous routines. It remains a wild burlesque with some high points, some low points, and a lot of aimless running...

Author: By Jonathon B. Propp, | Title: Myths, Movies and Men | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

Psychic gelatin is the main ingredient of Judith Rascoe's Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows. An aimless American woman uses the London flat of a traveling journalist and begins to feel his presence. She wears his bathrobe, reads his mail and manuscripts, talks cryptically to his friends on the phone. The journalist returns to find he is part of a strange relationship and to make the story's point: "One wants to be something, but what is there to be? Now I wish I were an American, now that's something to be! Without a passport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Disparate Decade | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...developed character; she often serves as a sounding board for Mel. Nevertheless, McPhee maintains a reasoned voice. Not surprisingly, when Edna finds a job after Mel has lost his, she also assumes his original neurotic qualities. Act Two's opening marvelously reveals this switch as Simon contrasts Mel's aimless wandering with Edna's verbal rambling. They also tend to philosophize; in the course of the play they wonder anxiously about their existence. To Edna's assertion that you either live with life's problems or get out, Mel replies that human beings have the right to protest...

Author: By Brian M. Sands, | Title: Second Avenue Serenade | 12/10/1980 | See Source »

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