Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three strategic locations (Liberty Street & Broadway, Bowling Green, City Hall) by the umbilical cords of power lines plugged into convenient buildings. The MacArthur coverage showed that TVmen were learning to be more relaxed about their business. In the case of "stage waits," for instance, instead of filling them with pointless interviews, they let the camera look at street scenes, study the faces in the waiting crowds...
...manager (Anthony Quinn) and his girl (Miroslava), suddenly sheds his fear and calmly faces death. Coming after the defeated, bitter tone of the picture up to that point, and without Novelist Lea's introspective motivation or an adequate dramatic substitute, the climactic scene seems arbitrary and pointless...
...contribution, "The Apparition," was the weakest of the four, though it came closest to being a play. Unfortunately, it tried to be two plays, one within the other, all within fifteen minutes. Except for an amusing performance by Kay Levy the acting was choppy and hampered by a pointless script, the last part of which consisted of quite a lot of words in no particular order. Lyon Phelps' "3 Words in No Time" was the most complex of the plays, but despite careful staging and impressive delivery by Thayer David and Jerry Kilty, it was not entirely coherent...
...more brilliant. He did not, however, persuade the French to give up their opposition to arming Western Germany. At no point did the U.S. publicly and with finality tell the French what sensible French politicians would have liked to hear: the U.S. was not going to embark on a pointless effort to rearm Western Europe unless the French agreed that the Germans be allowed to have their own defenses against the U.S.S.R...
This cool reception points up the absurdity of the UN decision, which reversed a 1946 resolution calling on all member nations to sever diplomatic tics with Spain. It may be true, as the United States delegation maintained, that the ban was pointless anyway, since diplomatic relations do not imply approval of a regime...