Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are selling decadence short in this musical, but they are very bullish on silliness. The Rocky Horror Show is a mindless spoof of old horror movies performed to the accompaniment of a rock score in the style...
Hockey [Feb. 24] is a sport of grace and finesse-a flowing, whirling, incredibly fast spectacle of great beauty and only occasional explosions of violence. Fred Shero and his bush-league bullies are perverting this finest of games and transforming it into a scene of bloody brutality and mindless pugilism more suitable to the ancient Roman arena...
...sharp guys come in here, take drugs, and get mindless," one prisoner who works in the state hospital says. "These are guys who could do things. some of them never leave...
...predictable: Matron meets the Son of Counterculture. Laura obediently bridles at the "spiritual onanism that leads these fools, these mindless children, to glorify themselves, or the self and its own ignorance." She is also physically stirred by Cogan, a shaggy "Montaigne in love beads, discarding whole areas of Western culture that do not serve him." Laura counterattacks with her "small focus of self-knowledge, the sweep of history," watches her admonitions founder against his coltish arrogance and her own proliferating self-doubts...
...language,"from the president on down, through Ehrlichman and Haldeman,through Ron Ziegler, through the press with its acceptance of euphemistic explanations from government officials, through the political candidates with their sterile, ingratiating speeches, through the social scientists with their unwieldy terminology,through the ad men with their ready, mindless sales pitches, right down to the proffessional athletes with their trugid comments, to the small restaurants using foreign names to spice up prosaic dishes, to the man on the street whose conversation is studded with "Y'know" and "right...