Word: meaninglessness
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Instead of humiliating themselves trying to win an unwinnable--and meaningless--game, the Democrats should be starting to build around ideas that will produce real victories a few years down the road when Reagan's policies start to sink the economy. The first task is differentiation; Democrats must start to distinguish themselves from the unsound ideas of the Republicans, enough so that on the next big issue AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland won't be wandering around mumbling "a pox on both your houses." Those ideas must be clear enough so that people who still care about the dreams...
...military operation to defend its citizens, that would be absurd." Begin neither intimated that Israel would engage in soul searching before undertaking such a raid again nor signaled any possible movement on the stalled negotiations with Egypt about Palestinian autonomy. McFarlane left with nothing more than a limp, almost meaningless, joint communiqué that said: "Any misunderstandings that might have arisen have been clarified...
...wastes the possibilities. Manhattan, with its mounumental architecture on every block, has an abundance of magnificent locations for titanic, evil struggles. Why then did Carpenter choose to set Escape mostly in the anonymous alleys and burntout storefronts of other cities? And why does he employ location shots for a meaningless wrestling match (featuring a performer who bears an admirable resemblance to that titan of professional wrestling. George "The Animal" Steele). Escape could just as well take place in St. Louis...
...complicated debt to the men and women who left their youth in Viet Nam, doing what their country asked them to do. Those who went to Viet Nam (whether they were volunteers, or draftees dragged there kicking and screaming) suffered through a violent complexity. It may have been meaningless. Or perhaps the war should instruct the nation in several dozen ways. Viet Nam was a painful learning experience for America, a civics lesson that dealt out violent penalties on both sides...
...excludes the third or fourth choice." Stevenson gave up his Senate seat, disenchanted, among other reasons, because "the media makes and breaks the politicians . . . It is the nation's most powerful and least accountable institution . . . It establishes the issues, and then reduces them to simple and sometimes meaningless formulations." Stevenson includes the entire press in his indictment, not just television news...