Word: meaninglessness
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...rampage, or dissolve into quiet sobs without warning in mid-conversation, or silently walk into a bathroom and rip it to shreds with his bare hands. But as he falls for Lena, Barry’s energy grows to serve a normal, workable emotion; his outbursts are no longer meaningless cries into a void, but rather are to some self-improving purpose. And, as Barry uses his emotional problems to become a happier human being, Sandler channels his flair for comic instability and rage in such a way that it makes him a more effective and believable dramatic actor; when...
...Puerto Rico - and release their album in Britain. Later this year, Las Ketchup will try to prove that they're not just a one-hit wonder with a second single, Kusha las Payas. The song, which they wrote themselves, is only slightly more comprehensible than Asereje; kusha is another meaningless word, but a paya is a non-gypsy. This one's about girls who head for the beach to do all the things Mom and Dad would never let them do at home: "A glass or two here and a slurp or two there, and I'll spend the weekend...
Nonetheless, in the spirit of creating meaningless classification systems for the purpose of convincing voters the administration has been doing something (besides trying to invade Iraq, of course), I would like to propose that the Bushies create a color coded system for indicating the status of a) the economy, b) corporate scandals, c) social security and d) public education. With any luck, by 2004 voters won’t see anything...
Saddam Buoys the Markets Iraq's offer to accept weapons inspectors back may have been dismissed as meaningless by the White House, but the markets have welcomed Saddam's move. Foreign markets and the Dow futures indicate that Wall Street is set for a stellar day, while oil prices fell sharply on the prospect of avoiding war with Iraq. Seems like the markets may not be entirely in agreement with White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, who said in comments reported Monday that even though a war may cost the U.S. up to $200 billion, it would be good...
...limited, I found myself bandying about terms exhausted by their own size: words like democracy, capitalism, poverty, Islam and America. Although I took part in the troubling discourse, I grew wary of analysis that clung to these terms, and I grew silent out of fear of saying meaningless things myself...