Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blood set out to find a victim. Vic, dressed like a Confederate soldier after Gettysburg and toting a carbine, is finally rewarded when Blood senses a female with his telepathic powers. They track her to an abandoned house and defend her against a roverpak in a boring, senseless and long drawn out shoot-out. Quilla June (Susanne Benton) then seduces Vic before he can rape her and manages to lure him to her home downunder. Quilla's community, a new Topeka, is composed of survivors convinced that America's Golden Age was in 1900 and determined to reproduce...
...Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat and Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami-seemed to be making some headway. In parts of Beirut, Christians and Moslems tore down barricades and gun emplacements and were aided by army bulldozers. But elsewhere in the capital, the combatants continued exchanging gunfire. The week's senseless violence had taken 100 lives, raising the death toll since April to more than 2,500, and had devastated even more of Beirut, turning the capital's urbanscape into a scarred battlefield (see color...
...would be a grave mistake to take them too seriously. Some of them are hardly more than a dozen or two people with a catchy name and a talent for publicity. Their methods are crude. They are the sort of people that Karl Marx would have contemptuously dismissed as senseless anarchists. Many California radicals follow the teachings of Mao, Che Guevara, French Revolutionary Regis Debray and Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian terrorist tactician. Marighella advocates violence as a way to encourage government authorities to overreact. He theorizes that a government will inevitably impose harshly repressive measures that will "radicalize" nonviolent citizens...
THERESA'S MURDER by a man she picks up in Mr. Goodbar after her unsatisfying attempts at involvement with both Tony and James is not a political commentary on rape by Rossner. It remains a senseless act but not connected with the violence--both physical and emotional--in Theresa's life. Her death is unintended; the murderer sees himself as victim. It is, in a way, just one more example in Theresa's life of her inability to emotionally communicate with anyone. Though a few other women in Looking for Mr. Goodbar seem to pursue normal relations with both...
...reputation has the inflated air of the underground favorite. Martin Sheen is a bored youth in a fifties town in the Dakotas. Nothing is happening. He and a young woman he picks up take off, heading nowhere, playing out occasional fantasies, not saying much, and eventually committing a few senseless murders. You identify with them, of course--they're all the movie gives you--and it's sad to see them caught by the police (one of whom is Harvard professor John Womack-don't even try to figure that out), especially when they don't really know what...