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Word: fruitlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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When initial searches on "Tolstoy," "Microsoft" and "love" proved fruitless, I decided to browse through the dozen or so category listings instead. But as I bounced from "education" to "entertainment" to "spirituality," I simply couldn't find a conversation that piqued my interest, except as a voyeur. Perhaps that's why of the 16 people listed in the fun-peers.30s section, only two were actually typing, including someone with the handle BOD2DIE4, who wrote, "No one is talking to me," and someone called YORKIETHE1ST, who asked, "Is everyone asleep in here?" Then I discovered that while Chatscan scours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Talkin' to Me? | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Trying to manufacture camp on purpose is as fruitless as trying to make primitive art in a factory. But that's the blatant aim of this remake of a 1973 occult cult classic--hence the over-the-top visual effects, the showy lesbian overtones and the general '70s-horror vibe. Casting Kate Jackson, from the original Satan, shows how desperately this 6-6-sex flick wants cult cred. And casting Shannen Doherty of Charmed reminds us that there's cooler supernatural programming on several nights a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satan's School For Girls | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...search will seem fruitless, until you discover some interesting books...

Author: By T. S. Dasgupta, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Widener's Smut Stacks Reveal Much | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

Ventura's departure from Reform's ranks is only the latest chapter in the predictable tale of fruitless fights for respect by third parties. Reform earned an astonishing 19% of the vote in the 1992 presidential race. But after founder ROSS PEROT's far worse finish in the 1996 presidential contest, the party seemed doomed--an antideficit party in a budget-surplus world. Ventura's 1998 gubernatorial win gave Reform new life and its first major officeholder, but there was no honeymoon. Ventura and Perot eyed each other with suspicion; the two have spoken only twice in their lives. Ventura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not My Party, So I'll Leave If I Want To | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...disclosures, we see the limitations of Maumort as a man. It seems as though he never is compelled to ask himself, do I dare? During his explorations of homosexuality at boarding school, he never fully reciprocates, but enjoys his pleasure. In his university years in Paris, he spends two fruitless years trying to lose his virginity by chasing after prostitutes, but never brings himself to complete the act. His first love affair with the Martiniqueian DouDou is fully in her control...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maumort Mounts the Moral Barricade | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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