Word: meaninglessness
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Quayle's hyperactive performance at his own investiture was criticized by many as more appropriate for a game-show host than for a would-be Vice President. He bounded across the podium, waving his arms, grabbing Bush's shoulder (the Vice President recoiled) and shouting meaningless phrases like "Go get 'em!" But many Bush advisers thought that Quayle's energy made the Vice President look like a Reaganesque elder statesman in comparison. Bush agreed. The next morning he said to an aide, "Don't let anyone try to put Dan in a straitjacket or slow him down...
Bush. Well, I wish all this wasn't churning around out there. It's distracted attention from the campaign itself. But it will be under control. I suppose we'll have to wait for the polls, which I always declared meaningless. I don't know...
...Reagan Administration's Latin American policy has become so contradictory as to be meaningless...
Part of the problem with The Boys and Their Baby is that it's difficult to sympathize with the main character. He seems like he has so many problems, but when you get right down to it and analyze them, they seem so meaningless. Adam Berg, is a 30 year old Yale graduate who just can't deal with his real world. It's not as if Adam has AIDS or is penniless or something. He is merely upset that his mother has remarried a man he doesn't like. And he is upset to find out that his girlfriend...
...Perception is the fifth dimension," he cries in this delirious monologue, and that is just about the only dimension left to him. On Designer Sirlin's trompe l'oeil stage, the first three dimensions dissolve, shift and disappear; on the spaceship, the fourth, time, is relative and thus meaningless. By the end, a half-crazed M. (the work's title comes from M.'s description of the pounding sounds in his head) has forgotten most of his ordeal, but is left to fear that the nightmare will begin again...