Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musical was last seen in 1927, when its satire of inane economics, bumbling bureaucracy and pointless war proved a bit strong for audiences. A reworked, watered-down Strike Up the Band eventually made it to Broadway, but the original version of the George Gershwin-George S. Kaufman collaboration disappeared. More than a half-century passes. Enter Marjorie Samoff and Eric Salzman, looking for the right play to open their newly formed American Music Theater Festival. They pieced Band together with the help of the late Ira Gershwin and Anne Kaufman Schneider, the playwright's daughter. It opened last week...
...stranger distances himself from the table and proclaims. "Gentlemen, think about an Olympics where the best compete against the best, but without associations with their countries. Yes, it would lack the sometimes burdensome political ramifications of the Games, but how empty such an Olympiad would seem, how pointless...
...limed by her and would have to struggle to get myself free. Only the space of one day, morning, noon, night, to bring such change! It was there, the trap I had tried to avoid-and would avoid!-the bitter sorrow of a love that is fruitless, pointless, hopeless, agonizing and ridiculous. Once more, the clown's trousers had fallen down...
...outrageous level--as in Airplane, where things are so stupid, you have to laugh at them. Android instead comes across as an overblown premiere of a sci-fi television show, whipped up just in time for fall previews, with silly cardboard sets, silly stock characters, and lots of pointless footage...
...Harper's isn't that bad Really. It does have problems, most obviously the hamburger-helper layout, which features lots of blank space and confusing or pointless graphics. They also haven't figured out how many columns they want on a page, and the new typeface is hard on the eye. Their "Annotation" (applying the techniques of history to a confusing modern document), which featured a doctor commenting upon a hospital bill, was almost laughably silly And the greatest problem is that unless their succession of short articles; tables and charts are extraordinarily compelling, they tend to vanish from...