Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that one I believe there are psychotherapists who might disagree." When all else fails, a common enough occurrence in this narrative, Heller turns to the slapstick of Mel Brooks circa the comedy routine "The 2,000-Year-Old Man" and the film The History of the World-Part I: pointless anachronisms (" 'Send a wire!' I shouted. 'We have no wires,' Jehoshaphat recalled for me") and noises in descending orders of rudeness...
...course, all the speculation proved pointless. The American women beat their opponents by an average margin of 33; the men by 32. Even the scores did not fully convey the sense of hopelessness with which the other teams went onto the court. Coach Antonio Diaz-Miguel of Spain, whose men's team lost by 101-68 in a preliminary game and by 96-65 for the gold medal, predicted from the outset that the U.S. men would not lose a game. Said he: "American basketball is 50 years ahead of other countries, and I think no one will ever...
...only athletes and coaches who are tired of such pointless fakery. "To ignore reality is stupid, and that's what we're doing," says Robert Helmick, a Des Moines lawyer who is a vice president of the U.S.O.C. Helmick also points out, however, that the Olympic definition of amateurism has been broadened enormously over the past 20 years. Broadened indeed; it is as if the definition of a milk cow had expanded to include gray skin, huge floppy ears and a trunk. Since 1980, subsidies and stipends paid out by the U.S.O.C. have doubled, to an impressive figure...
...gentleness that borders on the romantic, but not for long. Juxtaposed with the bygone scenes of adolescence are contemporary letters to the middle-aged Danny that trickle in from his Kostelec friends. Prema, the young resistance fighter, loses his focus after the war and drifts to Australia, dying a pointless death in a hurricane. Rebecca, the idealist, ends up in a kibbutz, shattered and alone after her son is killed by a bomb in an Israeli café. Jan, the poet, remains in Czechoslovakia. Blacklisted into silence, he commits suicide. As a self-described "raconteur of cynical tales," Danny concludes...
Seuss. His latest epic, The Butter Battle Book, is a parable of the nuclear age. Two peoples, the Yooks and the Zooks, find themselves in such fierce-and pointless-confrontation that each is ready to drop the fatal Bitsy Big-Boy Bomberoo on the other. They are very similar, these Yooks and Zooks. They seem to differ in only one way: one side takes its bread butter-side up, the other butter-side down. Yooks, Zooks. East, West. Butter-side up, butter-side down...