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...weeks later, my parents visited Harvard for freshman parents’ weekend. My mom, a big fan of pointless panels, attended one that was meant to discourage parents from expecting their students to get straight A’s. As she left on Sunday she recounted what she had learned and said: “Judd, you don’t have to get an A. But please, show up for the exam...
...unresolved. At times the film verges on self-parody—Viviane’s hammy, melodramatic antics, for example: the way she throws herself on her bed, her eyes oozing crocodile tears. Bon Voyage is not all bad—it’s just silly, unoriginal, and pointless...
...earned him a job as an office temp at the General Services Division of the Texas Department of General Services. TxDoGS, as its denizens call it, is a dreary cubicle farm consecrated to obscure bureaucratic functions. When a co-worker dies at his desk while working overtime on a pointless assignment, Paul's low-level anomie turns to panic at the prospect of "an eternity of meaningless work in an empty office in an eternal twilight...
...unresolved. At times the film verges on self-parody—Viviane’s hammy, melodramatic antics, for example: the way she throws herself on her bed, her eyes oozing crocodile tears. Bon Voyage is not all bad—it’s just silly, unoriginal, and pointless...
...Empire Strikes Back. But you’re also right to blame them for the brainless excesses of today’s summer scene—not just as the fathers of the form, but on the basis of their own conduct since that time. Lucas’ pointless return to the Star Wars franchise hasn’t done much to dignify the season. Nor has Spielberg’s spotty summer-film track record; if I were to wander the circles of Hell today, I’d hope to find the suits who greenlit Temple of Doom...