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...knew the rules-a costume like the karaori robe in russet silk (see color] would at once suggest a Heian-period court, somewhere between A.D. 800 and 1200. The balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic and pointless kind of football with no rules. The game consisted of several players kicking a bean-stuffed ball around a courtyard in which stood certain trees-cherry, maple, pine, bamboo and (here worked in gold thread into the red ground) willow...
...spring of 1975, Mee was asked to collaborate on a book with H.R. Haldeman. A founder of the National Committee on the Presidency, which lobbied for Richard Nixon's impeachment, Mee nonetheless flew to California for several days of ultimately pointless discussions. The meetings with Haldeman were touchingly anticlimactic. The man looked scrubbed, healthy, pleasant, infuriatingly unscarred. He showed Mee his annotated books about Watergate; with relentless precision, Haldeman had used green, yellow or red Magic Markers to underline passages according to their degree of veracity...
...course, one of these two men could still be chosen any day, and then you'll say that this column is pointless. Right? Wrong, because it won't erase the fact that the committee's first choice was Williams' Robert Peck, who, for one reason or another, was not given...
...unsubstantiated examples of Heart Throbs' supposed sexism. Opinions differ. Stephen Schiff wrote in the Real Paper "Best of all was The Bed." Robert Taylor wrote "By far the highlight of the program is The Bed." One could go on citing examples but would incur the risk of becoming as pointless as the review...
...some sort of political commentary is intended, its meaning is completely obscured by the pointless plot. The President is dead at the end of the play, yet the audience is not really sure who killed him, although we are told that the president's son, one of the anarchists, may be the killer. If so, so what? Is the point then that all repressive regimes deserve to fall, or that morons have no right to power? Or is the president a tragic figure, unable to comprehend the forces that inexorably dictate his destruction, much less his own shattered personal life...