Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just forget the whole thing. This really is pointless. I feel so stupid...
...begins with resident deejay Vince Fontaine (Brain Bradley) inviting the pre-teens in the audience to dance to '50s hits onstage. It's pointless fun but goes on far too long. Which isn't really such a bad introduction to the real show...
...same as saying that certain forms of behavior are morally wrong. When the government uses values to condemn, it is no longer a government for the people. Elected officials who use their offices as bully pulpits from which to divide the country along moral differences reduce reasonable discussion to pointless, destructively polarized debate. Politicians who try to use their positions to resolve difficult moral questions see politics as a battleground between good and evil. If only we could keep moral questions separate from political ones, we would gain a clearer understanding of the complexities of both...
Pessimists are worried that Israel may come to see as pointless further concessions to an organization that is increasingly fractious. Arafat's task, as usual, will be to prove the pessimists wrong...
...about Annie Lennox. At one point, the pop diva (incomprehensibly top-billed) appears from behind a pillar, only to wail a version of Cole Porter's "Everytime We Say Goodbye" as the two lovers caress and cavort around sadly, if such a thing is possible. There are several such pointless dance sequences (sans Lennox), which look as if they might have been choreographed by Janet Jackson. Aside from the sitar music with which "Edward II" opens, the MTV analogue, like that of the perfume ad, is impossible to avoid. All you "campsters" out there might be getting a bit excited...