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...convinced me not to hike in the rain, to wait till the next day when, perhaps, it would be beautiful again. It was easy to acquiesce. After 210 miles I wanted to climb to the top of the highest peak in the U.S. and take in the view, a pointless effort in the rain which hid the mountain from the view and the view from the mountain...
...statement approved by SASC two weeks ago SASC members said they "consider it ridiculous and pointless to deal with a committee (the ACSR) hand-picked by the administration to make only those recommendations the Corporation is willing to accept...
...would be wrong to say that the tie is useless or pointless. Dress is language. The tie has many meanings, many symbolic and psychological uses. It is an inverted exclamation mark hanging from the throat. It subtly directs attention away from the wearer's physicality. Worn with full business suit, it can be a form of armoring, a defense and an assertion of power. It can also be a gesture of compliance. White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, tieless and amiably scruffy for years, has started dressing (almost contritely) in suit and tie in the wake of stories about...
...nature. Its origins were whimsical enough. After the Croatians defeated the Turks in a battle during the 17th century, the victorious regiment was given a welcome in Paris; admiring Frenchmen copied the soldiers' flowing scarves-cravates. Over the centuries, the tie has gone through thousands of fitful and pointless variations: stocks, string ties and once during the 19th century, a crescent-shaped bowtie worn with a choker collar so high and stiff that the wearer could neither see to the side nor turn his head. This year, fashion designers have ordained that, along with lapels, the thing must shrink...
Carnal Knowledge-- Jack Nicholson and Ann Margaret go the way of all flesh in this bizarre and pointless chropnicle of developing sexual awareness. Art Garfunkel maundered his way through the film just like he's maundered his away through his recent songs while Ann Margret provides the jiggle interest. Nicholson is both effective and repulsive and the ending is a masterpiece of peverse nihilism. In short, an interesting waste...