Word: aimless
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Vatican, stalks him for more than 30 years, thwarting his vision of a heavenly kingdom on earth, though not his vision of heavenly sex. "We deserve the warmth of baths," the hero concludes in an Istanbul spa after a life of struggle. "May the days be aimless. Do not advance the action according to a plan." A satisfying formula for life, perhaps, but not for writing a book. So how - and why - did a gang of novelistic neophytes pull it all off? "We had a five-year plan like the Soviet Union's, only ours was successful," says co-author...
...part of me deeply envies my classmates who, reading the Wall Street Journal with pens in hand, are poised to embrace it. I wish I were poised to embrace something. Under the heading “Living With Indecision,” the OCS’ guide reminds the aimless among us, “Keep in mind that you are not looking for the perfect lifetime job….There is no ‘wrong’ first job if you learn something from the experience...
...debut film, George Washington, was a painterly group portrait of preteen anguish. Now that America's most gifted young auteur is 27, he's graduated to kids in their late teens and early 20s but with the same desperate, comic, always human yearning to connect. Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just becoming aware...
...album; they’re all good. On the particularly outstanding “Bandages,” singer/keyboardist Steve Bays leads the melody with one of the best uses of keyboard in recent rock while his pointed voice jostles the listener through whirling, biting images of aimless wandering and voodoo dolls...
...course, the show has been picked up for a second season. This is because it airs on the cable channel E!, where the standards for a hit are lower. Despite the audience drop, on E! the show still qualifies as a ratings winner. So far, the unintelligible ramblings and aimless meanderings of Anna Nicole Smith have left people agog that she uses silverware without harming herself. But E!'s executive vice president Mark Sonnenberg isn't concerned. He believes people are "rooting for [Smith] to get back into shape and revitalize her love life. What's in store next...