Word: aimless
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...Hard Weather Boating Party, by Naomi Wallace, suffers from something like the opposite problem. The play knows where it's going; the problem is getting there. Three apparently unrelated men gather in a seedy motel room to plan a murder. Yet the first act is padded out with mostly aimless talk; only in the second act, when the three return after the semi-botched operation, do we learn what's on Wallace's mind. The men's target, it seems, is the chief executive of a chemical company that has been polluting the waters and sickening workers. It's nice...
...point, Ronnie asks Brandi out by touching the top of her head and quipping, “You, me, free dinner... you fill in the rest with a yes.” With its meandering multiple plot lines, the film ends up very much like its main character: bipolar, aimless, and shameless. “Observe and Report” fails to make up its mind as to where it should place its focus, zigzagging between characters and events. As a result, the movie seems a little disjointed at times, pausing on extreme high-angle close ups of Ronnie?...
...fantastical, enchanted narrative, however, proves difficult to sustain. Lind begins to lose a little of his earlier momentum in the second half of the novel, particularly as Bachmann encounters even more cruel people and more frightening situations. Bachmann’s dogged persistence in finding a battalion is also aimless and repetitive, and while this is undoubtedly a result of his mental trauma, Lind could have given Bachmann’s earlier history or perhaps more details about the onset of his condition in order to help the reader appreciate his current state. Towards the end of the novel...
...Getting Out of Afghanistan Re Joe Klein's "The Aimless War": all the soldiers pictured with the article have the same haunting, tired, stressed, bewildered, questioning, faraway look [Dec. 22]. There is a saying, "The eyes are the portals to the soul of man." It is evident by the look in these soldiers' eyes that they are all asking, "What the hell is going on, and why are we here?" A better title for this story couldn't have been found. C.D. Rinck Sr., Mission, Kans...
...Getting Out of Afghanistan Re Joe Klein's "The Aimless War": all the soldiers pictured with the article have the same haunting, tired, stressed, bewildered, questioning, faraway look [Dec. 22]. It is evident by the look in these soldiers' eyes that they are all asking, "What the hell is going on, and why are we here?" A better title for this story couldn't have been found. C.D. Rinck Sr., MISSION, KANS...