Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although some comic moments blow by too quickly to appreciate, the timing is generally impressive and the endless entrances and exits are surprisingly well-synchronized. Also impressive is the vivid red, green and black set, designed by Derek McLane, which allows the cast to revolve in a whirlwind of pointless but comical activity...
...Schulman's last few days, though, it seems the tense atmosphere at the Review resulting from the investigation, may be relaxing somewhat. Bagenstos, echoing common feelings on the Review, said pressing the issue any further is "pointless...
...Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
...added that this trend "is in principle a value-increasing service, not a parasitic or pointless activity...
...great pity that such an enthusiastic director chanels her energies into flamboyant, but pointless gestures. Her time and talent would have been better spent addressing the serious and challenging passages in the play...