Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lacks an organizing theme to compete with McGinniss's haunting image of a woman being victimized over and over. Both books, for example, report that the three plotters were enmeshed in Dungeons & Dragons; Bledsoe does a far better job of explaining that game. Both books are freighted with pointless multigenerational background for the main characters, but Bledsoe's is less tedious. Not only are the co-conspirators almost ciphers in McGinniss's book, but so is the murdered husband Lieth Von Stein, while Bledsoe brings him alive...
...learn from our mistakes. In order for any lessons to take hold, though, we first have to admit that we made the mistakes. The people of the former Soviet Republics, for instance, will only cease their ethnic fighting once they realize that their long-standing intolerance is pointless. Otherwise, they will continue to fight until they destroy each other...
...pointless to knock Me. Critics have shot more arrows at Hepburn than you might find piercing the sides of St. Sebastian. Her voice was usually described in terms reserved for plumbing; her breasts were too small, her neck too scrawny; she wasn't sexy enough to play Scarlett O'Hara; she was labeled "box-office poison." And the toughest critic, Hepburn herself, says, "I was a terrible...
...catalog's nagging about the "mainstream" seems all the more pointless because Bearden possessed a deep aesthetic education: he was immersed in the self-sufficient culture of Western painting from Giotto right through to his own time, as well as in African art. It may be that curator Sharon F. Patton thought she was paying him some kind of compliment in writing that "like Pollock, de Kooning . . . and Rothko, Bearden, too, rejected the modernist tradition," but this is nonsense: none of those artists, Bearden least of all, did any such thing...
After leading the council through a quiet semester, Rauch ran again in the spring, but was outsted by Robert C. Rhew '92, the co-chair of the fall semester's services committee. Rhew said the council should stay away from "pointless" political issues over which the council could have no effect...