Word: pointlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airplanes and does not believe in order. In Space Odyssey, where a cool-calm computer turns into a cool-calm homicidal maniac, Kubrick pulls the rug out from under seemingly sound systems in the same manner as Downey does in Swope. And the people who called 2001 plotless and pointless are bound to say the same thing about Downey's film...
...Guilderstern Are Dead, two of Shakespeare's littlest characters wander around the edges of one of the most aesthetically sound "systems" of all time, Hamlet. But they don't know what to make of it. Ophelia runs around and Hamlet endlessly rants on. It all looks so stupid and pointless...
...play is not an original one. Long before him, Turgenev had likened the lives of some men to the futile effort, the useless suffering, of a fifth horse hastily harnesses to a coach and four. All its striving, the tether lacerating its back as it strains forward, is pointless...
...confusing), while all the time throwing in lets of contemporary asides. I could quibble over whether many of the adlibs should have been included. (Mentioning Bristol, Disneyland, and Somerville in the same line doesn't strike me as particularly funny. Even black humor has limits.) But it soon becomes pointless to argue over individual pieces--suffice to say, that when they are good, they are very, very good although when they are bad they are quite horrid...
...twice thrown off balance, pole in hand, by a mad flourish of trumpets heralding an awards ceremony. On his second try he cleared what was ultimately the winning height of 17ft. 8½ in., but the jump was nullified because his pole passed under the bar. That pointless rule had already been repealed-effective May 1, 1969; Pennel finished fifth. Nearing 29, he realizes that he will be too old to take a shot at the 1972 games-but he has one more important bar to cross. "I was the first guy to top 17 ft.," he says. "Before...