Word: aimlessness
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...chewing her out for her leading approach to her interviews. In overhearing her other interviews, it became clear that she was searching solely for quotes that supported her position. Hence her brusque dismissal of the one quoted student who wanted to (gasp!) make an informed statement rather than spew aimless vitriol...
...Camille Paglia. "She was asking America, 'Is it O.K.? Will you still like me if...?' It was wimpy. It robbed the act of any courage." But then Ellen, a onetime Top 10 show that plummeted to 39th in the ratings last season, has never been marked by bold confidence. Aimless and conceptually muddled from the outset, when it debuted as These Friends of Mine in March 1994, the sitcom has become so creatively stultified that a controversy over homosexuality is truly the least of its problems...
Back on the movie screen, some of the big names besides Bertolucci were disappointing their fans. Robert Altman's Kansas City, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson, shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash...
...story as a whole is pretty similar to Angelo's journeys: both are given a certain amount of momentum by chases, deaths, fights with mobs and soldiers, but remain essentially aimless, lacking in direction and overarching purpose. Emotional and psychological themes are also, for the most part, given short shrift; threads are taken up for awhile that eventually go nowhere. There is a childhood friend who betrays Angelo to the Austrians, but if this is meant to be a poignant disillusionment, it's too halfhearted to strike any chords. Angelo and Pauline are each haunted by outside characters--his mother...
SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH Aimless between the rock of a resurgent White House and the hard place of G.O.P. freshmen...