Word: useless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason, Rubin argues, was that modernism used primitivism when it needed to, and not before. A Fang mask or a Kota funerary effigy would have been useless to an impressionist, whose ambition was to render perceptual reality as faithfully as possible. But the drift of fauvism and especially cubism was toward the conceptual: and here the idea of representing, say, a face as a flat plane with knoblike eyes and a cylindrical funnel of a mouth was infinitely suggestive. Certainly it was convenient for Picasso to rejig the human face in terms of bladelike noses and scarification lines...
...Engineering, was preparing a report for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on whether to buy 117 more. While DeLauer was at work, a study by the Defense Department's inspector general surfaced: it revealed that the Pentagon had paid $84 million more than necessary for the expensive and useless weapon. The study was released by Oregon's Republican Congressman Denny Smith, a fierce opponent of DIVAD. According to the report, the Pentagon was too concerned with producing the weapon swiftly to bargain carefully with the manufacturer, the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp. of Newport Beach, Calif., a division...
...rebuttal, Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb later testified that defects crippled only about 21% of the Navy's missiles. Korb's estimate for useless Air Force missiles...
...Kimberly received his instructions. Disguised as a commercial attache, he is to retrieve a long lost dossier containing the names of all Soviet controlled spies operating in Britain during Kimberly's days. Although the early scenes are tightly done, this early promise is soon squandered in much of the useless talk, poor humor and muddled action that follows...
...result of this is that someone familiar with Harvard and Radcliffe doesn't get a complete feel for the place and time, while the general audience gets too much useless information. References to the Pudding and the Fly Club are fine as long as you indicate their relative significance, which Adams seldom does. In short, don't expect another Last Convertible. Or even Love Story...