Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fluent only in Urdu, he abruptly grasped English entire. The result is quite an explosion, a staccato burst of verbal star shells, pinwheel phrases, cherry bombs of Joycean puns and wordplays. Such a book is Snow White, an amusingly refurbished fairy-tale novel of the absurd-as episodic and pointless as a slow-turning kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...
Anastasia Kucharski '68, RGA president, began drawing up the new rules last month after dorm presidents and many Cliffies complained that the present rules, adopted last year, were pointless and unenforceable. They contended that the present system, in which girls do not write their destinations, does not provide any protection, and therefore should be either strengthened or abolished...
...lengthy list of credited directors appears one "John Huston," who should be and probably is ashamed of himself. The problem--the rub--is that who can resist a cast like that? The advertising is so damn good that Casino Royale has it made--so it would be pointless to go into why it's such a ghastly movie. But the picture is not all black. Maybe Welles made enough from it to finance a movie...
...Littlewood brought Barbara Garson's Mac-Bird to town, the critics threw every pan in the kitchen. After seeing the pseudo-Shakespearean parody about Johnson and the death of President Kennedy, the London Daily Mail's critic growled: "Immeasurably witless rubbish." The London Times sniffed: "It is pointless to get too indignant. The production successfully torpedoes what was already a fragile and leaky craft...
Environment, however, cannot explain the Loeb's lifeless and pointless production ofPlough and the Stars. Two vital errors in conception crippled it from the start...