Word: meaninglessness
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Like all Mamet plays, Speed the Plow is all talk and no action. Pompous airheads loaf around the stage, vomiting a constant stream of meaningless platitudes, feigned emotions and boasting bombast. With sinister skill, Mamet makes good intentions look laughable, self-analysis futile and reform impossible...
...difference between "should not say" and "cannot say." Remarks which perpetuate racist, sexist or homophobic myths should not be said. But other people must have the right to say them. Having differences in opinion is a fundamental human right. Without freedom of expression, the principle of equal rights is meaningless...
...president asking a Court of Appeals to lift Hatter's injunction while it awaits December arguments on the constitutionality of the ban? Because Hatter's ruling jeopardizes Clinton's carefully-crafted "compromise," which cloaks its betrayal of gays and lesbians in the meaningless promise that as long as they remain in the closet no one will try to kick open the door...
...posters, no doubt, were covered with mind-numbingly stupid slogans. Harvard is supposed to be full of intelligent, discerning human beings; people who delight in scorning the low-brow indulgences of consumer culture. How has it come, then, that we are daily bombarded with home-grown jingles that make meaningless TV ejaculations like "Coke Is It," seem thankfully creative by comparison...
...center of the controversy, then, is a double standard. With Roe as their shield, the better-off do as they please. For the poor, though, and for those without health insurance, choice is meaningless without the means to choose. Only 13 states voluntarily fund abortions for those who can't afford them; the poor elsewhere are looking to Clinton to save them from the back alley. But Clinton's options are limited by the Hyde Amendment, the 16-year- old constraint on the use of federal funds to finance abortions authored by Illinois Representative Henry Hyde. The law, which initially...