Word: fruitlessness
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Forget the dictates of retrochic: the typical '70s family was not the Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah...
Stephen E. Weinberg '99, outgoing finance committee chair, said that he spent two fruitless days tabling in Dunster to encourage candidates...
...woman charged with trying to save these antagonists from themselves has been in no hurry to visit the region. In 20 often fruitless trips, Albright's predecessor, Warren Christopher, became a model of what she saw as American diplomatic impotence. Unsure of herself in the byzantine world of Middle Eastern politics, she said she would travel there only if she could accomplish something substantial...
...thing you've got to say about Larry Ellison: when he made a billion dollars, he decided to enjoy it. Why should he listen to anyone else telling him what to do? Why should he worry? "It seems like a fruitless activity. I observe and I plan and I think and I strategize," he says. He can do anything he wants. He can go anywhere, say anything, buy anything. He's got a billion, right...
...crowd teeming with band alumni of various ages, one could sense the implicit understanding linking those who had once played on the stage and those who now occupied it. Enthralled audience members seemed hardly to notice the passing of time during the three-hour long concert, aside from their fruitless squirming to find a semi-comfortable position on Sanders' cruel benches...