Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crystallizes a struggle that has been going on for years in the American cultural-political conscience. The dispute occurs at the point where the mess of personal character and ambition and expedient need runs into history, principle or public ridicule. Dick Morris' adventures at the Jefferson Hotel--though meaningless in themselves, and pretty funny, if you are feeling savage--are damaging because they connect in the American mind to larger questions of public trust. Doing so, they ensure that the manipulative cynicism of politicians has produced an ultimately more dangerous cynicism in the public...
...many somewheres, that can replicate itself over and over until it evolves into a creature that can scratch its head? Or did an all-powerful God set in motion an unfathomable process in order to give warmth and meaning to a universe that would otherwise be cold and meaningless? The rock from Mars does not answer such questions. It does, however, make them feel all the more compelling...
Funny scenes where Laura, budding therapist, fantasizes about her patient or is duped by a patient into believing he's batty totter towards more traditionally meaningless comedy, but are saved by Laura's honestly not having any confidence in her abilities...
...Anna Wilde was the Associate M.E. They had been dating for a while, moved in with each other after graduation, and just tied the proverbial knot last month. Joe was an outspoken M.E. who thought nothing of sending a comper out in the rain to cover some meaningless story. He was--and is--an active person, liking sports and always fidgeting around. You don't describe him with passive words...
...election will mean the end of the peace process. At first, the new Israeli prime minister sounded conciliatory Tuesday when he announced that he would pursue negotiations with Syria, Lebanon and other Arab countries with no preconditions for peace. But in the next breath, Netanyahu rendered his own promise meaningless: he said any agreement with Syria would involve Israel retaining control of the Golan Heights, that his government is opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state and that he will expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer: "If Netanyahu...