Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such in-joking helps distinguish Looking for Work from the 8 trillion or so recent novels about young women trying to find themselves. The chief point of the exercise seems to be fun. No matter how much she protests, Salley is a confirmed flibbertigibbet, her name itself an amusingly pointless steal from a poem by Yeats ("Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet"). Life has given her every advantage, including just the right number of trendy neuroses. Though she claims to spend a large portion of her story job hunting, what she really looks...
...Just to make an official statement to boycott would be pointless because we weren't sending anyone anyway," Yvonne S. Turner '81, House Committee chairman, said yesterday...
Whether they are called beauty contests or cattle shows, they are silly, exhausting and largely pointless, and everyone knows it, especially the candidates who have to go along with the foolishness, or risk offending a group of voters, or let a rival get a step on them. Thus the presidential candidates have already suffered through a series of mock votes and straw polls of one kind or another. The latest was a "convention " thought up by an advertising man to steal a beat on the New Hampshire primary and hype interest among Republicans. Most of the "delegates" were chosen...
...which eventually become faculty legislation are those which the Faculty originally wanted passed. Dana Leifer '80, a former CUE student member, says the issues CUE discussed "were all generated from the Faculty." Because Bowersock writes the agenda for each meeting, faculty concerns get top billing. "Everything we do is pointless unless it's something the Faculty supported to begin with," Henderson says...
...dead end. Mad scenes, broad comic bits and mournful monologues are so indiscriminately mixed that the audience often does not know how to respond. At one point the movie comes to a halt so that we can go on a supposedly comic helicopter ride. There are also pointless interludes in which the hero visits his humorless grandfather (Lee Strasberg) at an old-age home; these scenes swing wildly between sentimental clichés and tasteless jokes about senility...