Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Dineen wandered Hemenway's wooden-floored corridor, shuffling aimless circles between lingering spectators, parents and once-annually squash groupies. Charlie Duffy, one of three seniors on the team, left the building to sit in the cold outside the door and talk of anything but squash with a non-squash friend. On the top echelon of Hemenway's ziggurst grandstands Jim Lubowitz simply sat, head bowed to the floor, hands on his face trying to wipe out the match's final result...
...political order; John Paul in his papal robes of immaculate white; Sadat, the erect warrior, in a field marshal's gold-braided blue uniform. All the victims were over 60; each was attacked by a man in his 20s. Raised in suburban ease, Hinckley had just drifted away, aimless and alone, gorging on fast food in rented rooms and fantasizing a love affair with a teenage movie star. It was to command this dream girl's attention that he shot the President. Awaiting trial early this year, at which his lawyers will plead insanity, Hinckley, alone...
...never reach your "Tennessee"? That you'll always be an ant on a goddamn dirt floor if that's what you make it? Or is it always a dirt floor, no matter how you deceive yourself? Beats me, but there's no drama in the play. Linney writes aimless, graceless dialogue and has no sense of shape--or else the piece would be a fifth as long--and his characters are thin or non-existent. Director Brian Smiar has immersed them in molasses, resulting in The Longest Hour, as badly staged and acted as anything I've seen...
Whatever the intent, the result is an aimless bust, unencumbered by a visual or structural scheme. It wanders through a series of tony boîtes, boutiques and hotel lobbies in the vagrant hope of witnessing a privileged moment. Those are likely to occur only when Hepburn is onscreen. At 52, the eternal gamine has become a figure of icy chic; the lilt in her voice now has the gravity of years; she has barely a line to speak in the film's first hour, and too many silly words in the second. But she is still a radiant...
...waiter in a New York City restaurant. The two men went outside, and moments later the young waiter was lying on the ground, stabbed to death. Abbott was gone. He fled south to New Orleans, then on to the oilfields along the Gulf of Mexico. Abbott led an aimless life of twelve-hour shifts at $4 an hour and spent hot nights on tired, sheetless mattresses in lonely bunkhouses a hundred miles from nowhere. Last week he was finally run to ground outside Morgan City, La. Abbott offered no resistance and said little until told that Belly had become...