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...severely beaten by his attorney wife once or twice a year. He keeps cosmetics at home and in his office to cover up the bruises and face bites. An Army veteran and multiple amputee living in Georgia says his wife routinely socks and kicks him "just for being so useless, I guess." A former Virginia television personality endured a 26-year marriage to a woman who regularly punched him in the groin and face while he was driving. Once she bashed his head open with two cans of Campbell's pepperpot soup...
...marry a doctor's son so he can have cheaper and more accessible care for his "illnesses." But Angelique loves Cleante and refuses her father's command to marry the odious son of M. Diafoirus, Thomas (Randy Clark and Samuel Krisch). Thomas and his father are replete with useless "university" knowledge which they spout without even understanding. They are utter quacks, ordering Argan to put grains of salt on his eggs in even numbers, and take pills in odd numbered quantities...
...have believed and I believe from time to time in literature as testimony of the truth, and that what is more true is more valuable. On the other hand, now I consider literature as a school of the useless. But there is a usefulness in the useless. When you go to see a soccer game or a rugby game, you can realize to what degree useless and gratuitous things are necessary...
Some students in Soc Sci 174 last year had complaints about Fisher and his course. A common criticism was that the course "lacked substance." Others said the lectures were repetitive, and the weekly full-class discussion sections were useless. Students complained the reading list contained unclear or highly theoretical works, and the weekly problems sets were ambiguous and not very useful...
...fans, the last week has been hell. Nature's droppings paralyzed Harvard right in the middle of the week, leaving us with no excuse to sleep all day. Worse yet, the tube, our hallowed shrine, has been useless. Empty. Boring. Not even Sports Challenge or Roller Derby. Even the most dedicated armchair beer guzzler can't call As The World Turns sports...