Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...granted, to be enjoyed. They are better prepared than we are for the computer revolution." Skow, a cheerful skeptic, refuses to endow the phenomenon with any cosmic significance at all. His view: "It's just another manifestation of human mania, our endearing quality of going relentlessly after absolutely pointless goals...
...eating problem often find it difficult to sympathize with someone who suffers a food disorder. Says one slender Harvard male whose sister throws up several times a day: "When I first found out Mary was throwing up I was struck with disbelief. The whole thing seems so pointless--why eat if you're just going to throw...
...planning and foresight enjoy leaps in output, while those that rush blindly into the uncharted world of the office-of-the-future come soon enough to regret it. Adding word processors and an electronic mail system to a department filled with middle managers might simply boost their output of pointless memos or reams of undigested numbers, thereby actually adding to company overhead instead of paring it back. Says a staffer at Apple Computer Inc., a leading manufacturer of personal computers: "We found ourselves generating hundreds and hundreds of pounds of papers until top management decided it wanted fewer numbers...
...UNDERLYING cynical mentality emerges from the seemingly pointless use of period sets and big-name stars. As Grecians merrily dance, Kevin busily clicks away with his SX-70, because things are no longer real to children unless they have verification--the media age strikes again. The main impediment to the effectiveness of such tactics arises from Kevin and the midgets playing things straight while surrounded by celebrities camping it up. The result is unfocussed, if not unsettling...
...absolutely serious manner in which the authors go about propounding the most pointless ideas leads to pity for lives wasted in such vacuous banality...