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Over the last decade the United States has waged a brutal and pointless war against the land and people of Vietnam, killing hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Americans and supporting a series of repressive military governments. Now, it appears, the nightmare is beginning again in Laos and Thailand. The killing in Southeast Asia must be stopped...
...airplanes and does not believe in order. In Space Odyssey, where a cool-calm computer turns into a cool-calm homicidal maniac, Kubrick pulls the rug out from under seemingly sound systems in the same manner as Downey does in Swope. And the people who called 2001 plotless and pointless are bound to say the same thing about Downey's film...
...Guilderstern Are Dead, two of Shakespeare's littlest characters wander around the edges of one of the most aesthetically sound "systems" of all time, Hamlet. But they don't know what to make of it. Ophelia runs around and Hamlet endlessly rants on. It all looks so stupid and pointless...
...play is not an original one. Long before him, Turgenev had likened the lives of some men to the futile effort, the useless suffering, of a fifth horse hastily harnesses to a coach and four. All its striving, the tether lacerating its back as it strains forward, is pointless...
...confusing), while all the time throwing in lets of contemporary asides. I could quibble over whether many of the adlibs should have been included. (Mentioning Bristol, Disneyland, and Somerville in the same line doesn't strike me as particularly funny. Even black humor has limits.) But it soon becomes pointless to argue over individual pieces--suffice to say, that when they are good, they are very, very good although when they are bad they are quite horrid...