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...operas and on Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...
...through Applause and Annie to Miss Saigon, cast with three Tony Award winners and designed by two more, Nick & Nora should have absolutely everything going for it. But the show that opens on Broadway this week is a crashing bore -- cranky and arbitrary as a love story, tedious and pointless as a murder mystery, ham-handed as comedy, clubfooted as dance, at best wanly pleasant as music. A few scenes work, some quite well. The final 10 minutes achieve a truth and simplicity underscoring the barren brittleness of what has gone before. But ultimately the show fails at its most...
Nick's sporadic violence is the only action in the play; all else is dialogue that often appears pointless and incoherent. Mamet's critics often consider this ultimate realism--the diminishing of action into perpetual, unconstructive, oververbalization...
...shelves of it--but students are simply denied access to it. Programs are locked up in the software library, or protected by a password on the file servers. Although the purpose of reserving the software for those who absolutely need it for their classes is acceptable, it seems pointless to hide the software when nobody is using it. Word processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, should be considered as "required" for every class which assigns papers...
...lacks an organizing theme to compete with McGinniss's haunting image of a woman being victimized over and over. Both books, for example, report that the three plotters were enmeshed in Dungeons & Dragons; Bledsoe does a far better job of explaining that game. Both books are freighted with pointless multigenerational background for the main characters, but Bledsoe's is less tedious. Not only are the co-conspirators almost ciphers in McGinniss's book, but so is the murdered husband Lieth Von Stein, while Bledsoe brings him alive...