Word: aimless
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Both Harvard and the puck floated in the wrong direction, aimless, off-course, wandering an unforeseeable path...
...Linklater’s been hit-and-miss for a few years—School of Rock aside, Tape underwhelmed me, and all that Waking Life had going for it was innovative presentation (there’s that dubious “I” word again) and enough aimless, useless philosophizing to fill a semester of Moral Reasoning lectures—but I am very pumped for the Ethan/Julie reunion. It’s the next best thing to the Brief Encounter sequel that we never...
...suspects; police brought in the agent whose psychological sketch helped capture Thomas Lee Dillon, who pleaded guilty a decade ago to five sniper killings in southeastern Ohio. Franklin County's civilians have their own theories about who the shooter is--an angry loner, a reckless teenager, a bored aimless adult. What scares them most is the real possibility that it is one of them. --Reported by Kristin Kloberdanz and Chris Maag/Columbus
Almost without trying, Dartmouth quarterback Charlie Rittgers was able to find receivers in every nook and cranny on the field, no matter how tightly-guarded they were. Over and over again, the southpaw lofted seemingly-aimless third-down passes from deep in the backfield, and over and over again a Big Green player would somehow reel them in for a massive gain and a first down...
...have come at a better time. NASA was smacked around soundly last week when the long-awaited report on the loss of the space shuttle Columbia was released. Investigators blamed the tragedy, at least in part, on the agency's lack of a crisply defined focus--particularly its largely aimless program of human exploration. But launching interplanetary probes is something NASA has always done well. At the moment, Mars is making itself a decidedly tempting target, and humanity is taking advantage...