Word: meaninglessness
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...factotums, each armed with a walkie-talkie in order to remain, Sununu-like, in a state of "constant communication" ("Base to Smith, Bush is moving, Bush is moving!"). Last week's summit had all this, plus near riots in the press room whenever White House aides distributed another meaningless pool report (sample title: "Mrs. Bush Pool Report...
...mechanically reproduced -- images that come out on a glossy page as trite- looking black squares. Reinhardt's series of "black" paintings, completed between 1954 and his death in 1967, are among the few works produced by an American that make sense only in themselves and are utterly meaningless in their clones. Collectively they are a superb vindication of art's right to be experienced at first hand. And they have not been seen together in the U.S. for 20 years. This fact alone makes this summer's Reinhardt retrospective at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, jointly organized with...
...will grace and love, evil's enemies, wither too? The question goes back to the Garden. Does the good become meaningless in a world without evil? Do the angels depart along with the devils? If the stainless canister knows nothing of evil, will Mozart sound the same to it as gunfire...
...government concluded that more than $3 million in direct and indirect cost billings were made "on an arbitrary basis" and that it could not determine the appropriateness of $40 million in salaries and wages because "the University's salary certification procedure is meaningless...
...across the barrier of a river that is, alas, drying up. Friends die. He is swept up in a mutinous retreat, caught, imprisoned, condemned, then released on the whim of a mad dwarf in the war ministry, whose function is to make sure that military orders are garbled and meaningless. Then he is thrown back into the line, wounded, and swept up again, this time in a love affair with a nurse...