Word: pointlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast cannot redeem. Marian Seldes winces uncomfortably in her pointless role, and Richard Woods cannot enact a plodding, fatuous lawyer without giving a plodding, fatuous performance. Victor Garber coasts fairly pleasantly through his cunning young man role, and Marian Winters twinkles merrily as a psychic spinster, but we can't be allowed to laugh at her performance without another character reminding us that she is "the comedy relief...
...Mounties broke into a Parti Québ&3233;cois office in Montreal. According to federal Solicitor General Francis Fox, the Mounties lifted computer tapes containing the P.Q.'s membership list and financial records and copied the documents before surreptitiously returning them. It seemed a pointless burglary, since the Mounties apparently learned nothing that they could not have found out as easily by perfectly legal means. What enraged the federal opposition parties, and dismayed Trudeau's Liberals, was not simply that the Mounties had operated beyond the law but that they felt free to spy on a legal...
...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...