Word: aimless
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...Unless Harvard is content to allow its liberal tradition to become either merely a ticket for some to wealth and fame, or a babysitter for the aimless academic and social pursuits of young adulthood, it must seriously reconsider its educational role...
...just lobbyist row on Washington's K Street that is resounding these days with recriminations over the aimless failure of a grand political party. In France last weekend, the once venerable Socialist Party gathered in the northeastern city of Reims, the world capital of Champagne, in what they'd hoped would be the beginning of their counter-offensive to recapture power from President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives in 2012 elections. (See photos of the Sarkozys in London...
...just the mildest of their jokes. So it's entirely possible that Burn After Reading is some multifilm concept comedy--that No Country for Old Men was a feature-length diversionary tactic from the Coens' strategy of trying the patience of their most dedicated admirers. They started with that aimless farce The Ladykillers and bring the geste to fruition with their latest enervating caper. If this is so, they've managed a pretty complex joke, and it's on you. Too bad it isn't funny...
...producers of Lost have found the secret to resuscitating a great TV show: make less of it. Last year, in the middle of a third season that was criticized by fans as slow and aimless, they proposed to end the hit show after three more seasons of 16 episodes each, six or so fewer than a typical TV-drama season. ABC, stunningly, agreed, though it had the contractual right to frog-march the lucrative property ahead for as many seasons as it liked...
...don’t want to say we’re aimless, but there is no specific agenda other than to review the procedures of the Ad Board,” he said...