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Just hours after Bill Cosby's words have finally dripped to a pointless conclusion, you will receive your first call from your alma mater. She will not want to chat. She will want money. Do not give it to her. She will use guilt, intimidation, peer pressure, sentimentality and sex. Actually, if she uses sex, you probably didn't go to such a great school and don't have a lot of spare cash anyway...
Publications range from liberal (Perspective) to conservative (the Salient) and useful (the Let's Go travel guide series) to pointless (the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...test my father was failing miserably; his shoulders were hunched over, and his chin seemed glued to his chest. And in a therapy room bustling with the noise and activity coming from other patients re-learning how to walk, my father still kept falling asleep. It seemed pointless to continue the hour-long session, and my dad's therapist and I were ready to put him back into his wheelchair and try again the next day. Until, of course, my mother intervened...
...national media wasted precious inches this week in its endless, dry and rather pointless coverage of the Super Tuesday primary elections. Blinded by its incomprehensible quest to champion the story with the fewest number of interesting angles, it overlooked a veritable news gem which broke early Monday morning at the California Yacht Club in Los Angeles. Instead of reading about how Al "the Bore" Gore and George W. "I-went-to-Yale-so-I-stink" Bush were probably going to capture instead their respective party nominations (duh), we should have found the famous French adventurer Remy Bricka adorning the front...
...Despite its problems, entertaining snippets abound to counter the disappointing moments and clich‚s. Perfect Days is a romantic comedy blessed with some very witty lines-Barbs describes her uninterested male neighbor as having PGL, or Pointless Good Looks. Her mother Sadie and her friend Brendan have the funniest roles, a fact that neither actor takes for granted throughout each of their great deliveries. However, former husband Davie Marshall (Derek Nelson), young boyfriend Grant, and friend Alice have considerably less well developed roles, something which limits them despite their considerable acting talent. Always enjoyable, though, is the play...