Word: meaninglessness
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...Hyperbolic Habit is to make the professors conscious of it. To this end I suggest the introduction of large electronic scoreboards into lecture halls. The boards will use multi-colored light bulbs to keep track of "as-it-weres," "quote-unquotes," "so-to-speaks," and other annoying phrases or meaningless digressions during lecture...
George lives in a world where time is meaningless and it's possible to go months without being touched by anyone but a thug. Lack of sleep, food or conversation breeds confusion and depression. He feels himself slipping but struggles to remember what he once had and to figure out how to get it back. He rarely drinks alcohol and keeps his light brown corduroy pants and red- checked shirt meticulously clean. Underneath, he wears two other shirts to fight off the cold, and he sleeps with his large hands buried deep within his coat pockets amid old sandwiches...
...after seeing the opening exhibition, "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985," in the Los Angeles County Museum's new wing is in each case the latter. The good news, one might say, is that early 20th century abstract art, long regarded by a suspicious public as basically meaningless and without a subject, turns out to have a very distinct and pervasive one -- the last mutation, in fact, of religious experience in the visual arts. The other news is that spiritualism is so arcane and culturally eccentric that it may make the paintings look even less accessible than when...
...patrolmen's latest charge--that Harvard tried to subvert the collective bargaining process--is disturbing because that process is the raison d'etre of unions. To deny workers the advantage of a united stance is to make unions meaningless. Sadly, however, the University's attitude toward unions is all too clear...
After The Game come The Statistics. The pageantry and hype surrounding the 103 Games has engendered a mass of largely meaningless statistics. Still, some of the numbers can be rather interesting. Consider...