Word: meaninglessness
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...those so-called traditions and values on the international stage. Get away from Haiti, from Panama, from Bosnia. Otherwise it is very likely for another Defense Secretary to over estimate the "danger" somewhere some day, as McNamara did in 1966. We can't afford to see another costly and meaningless war, nor another book of confessions...
...Dean Jewett decides to move to complete randomization, house personalities will be utterly characteristics remaining will be location and facilities. All this will be meaningless, of course, because students will be powerless to choose any of these things. Students who want a river view will wind up staring at the grass in the Quad; students who want weight rooms will get darkrooms; and students who want singles will wind up crammed into a walk-through suite with n+1 zillion roommates...
...floor or the wall. It may be that the impulse to multiply the height of the letters of his written name 14 times their normal size and then trace the result in neon tubing satisfies some inner necessity for Nauman, but for anyone who isn't Nauman, it's meaningless. And you soon lose interest in the "animated" neon pieces, with their spasmodic one-two, on-off movements of violence or puppet sex. They are one-liner art, no matter what windy claims surround them...
...disaster. To my surprise, when I picked up my copy of Time, on your index page I saw a picture of Watanabe lying on the subway platform. To say the least, I was saddened. Thank you for acknowledging his death. He as well as others who died in this meaningless display of violence will be greatly missed...
...research her debut effort, Surfing The Internet (Little, Brown, & Co). The result of sleep deprivation and stimulant overload is a sassy, hypercharged piece of cyberculture shock which reads like an extended Internet session and takes J.C. to the furthest points of cyberspace and back. Through virtual worlds full of meaningless babble and technological romance, around connection obstacles and cultural consequences, Herz's faster-than-a-speeding-bullet style whizzes through the tangle of the Internet and delivers a book equally accessible to initiates and those who are terminally offline...