Word: senseless
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...June 4, 1763 the Sac Indian tribe and the Chippewa tribe were playing a game outside an English fort in Canada. The object of the game was to club--or crosse--opposing players senseless. Amused, the men of the fort came out to watch, leaving the fort unguarded...
Angola is now all but taken over [Feb. 23]. The U.S. should publish a list of the countries that would be defended by us against Communist aggression. The remaining countries could then be taken over by the Communists without suffering the senseless wastes...
...Pier Paolo Pasolini was, then, a political phony, a mediocre poet, an opportunist filmmaker capitalizing on the Roman desire for circuses with lots of blood and sex, and if his death was such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning...
Pasolini would have found a paradoxical meaning in his own senseless death...
...seasoned viewer of Mission: Impossible. In the second place, when I did figure out what was going on, I thought that the C.I.A. was entirely right. Three Days seems to be saying that the C.I.A. is like a big anonymous corporation in which pawns get knocked off in the senseless palace intrigues of the bigshots. Redford's one major policy statement at the end of the film is designed to make us cheer the idea of the small man fighting the bureaucracy, only instead of the harried housewife trying to get the phone company to correct a billing error, this...