Word: formlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." Nor would many put it as baldly as former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst: "You don't need facts. You don't need evidence. All you need is votes." Both views are so broad as to be formless...
...make social relationships ends in themselves seems almost sure to destroy the purpose in friendships. Playing bridge and going to fashion shows are frivolous occupations. Not wrong and silly, but formless. There is an enormous difference between attending a fashion show (if you like them) with a friend to relax, and relaxing at a fashion show in order to make friends...
...suddenly, the caged look of animal fear drops from her face as it goes grimly taut. She changes into a severe formless suit and walks out on her husband looking like...
Rosi's movie is a semi-documentary investigation of that crash, as dramatically formless as a pile of researcher's note cards shuffled and dealt out at random, leaving the viewer to reach whatever conclusion he pleases about the cause of Mattel's ugly demise. This formlessness dictates a film less suspenseful and, in the end, less satisfying than it might have been. It never quite pierces the surface to reach the dramatic possibilities we know to be buried in the dark depths below...
LIKE Walt Whitman, Ginsberg at his worst is unbelievably bad. His indiscriminate wanderings lead only to dead-end, dead-Beat poetry. But his failures throw his strong accomplishments in experimental poetry into greater relief. The form behind his seemingly formless poetry lies in his own personal senses of sound and breathing rhythm. He juxtaposes his words as much by their sounds as by their sense...