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...BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE are useless but always around. Promoters place plastic images throughout the media, tantalizing Mary Q. Housewife with visions of grandeur. Mary Q., with her rollers and middle-aged paunch, joins with the rest of her family in supporting the beautiful people by buying their records, watching their shows and imitating their styles...
...announced Antigona's death. First one reported the local news: "The criminal Antigona Perez...finally kept her date with the law." Then another reported on the international scene: "The famous designer Pierre Cardin has announced he will begin a new line of men's fashions." It would have been useless to cry. I could not have been purged. The ending confronts us too constantly--even on page nine of The New York Times...
...conference, Carter also discussed U.S. intervention abroad in quite another guise: covert CIA operations. The week before, the President had abruptly cut off the agency's secret payments to Jordan's King Hussein because the Washington Post was about to expose the practice and hence render it useless.* By implication, Carter told newsmen that he had not found anything wrong with the 20-year-old custom of giving money to Hussein. The President said he was reviewing all CIA programs and had so far found nothing wrong. If he did, he promised to stop any "impropriety or illegality...
...field. Shortly before he died, he was quoted as communicating, "I found it no handicap. I could feel the tiniest foul tip and when on the bases I had my own secret way of knowing when a batter made a foul tip. The yelling of the opposition was useless as far as I was concerned...
There are two schools of thought about lectures. One group (many of whom enjoy sleeping late) contends that lectures are one-way informational streets that stifle audience creativity. These new educational left thinkers argue that no one person monopolizes knowledge on a subject, so it's useless to have hundreds listen to one--some form of interaction is better. They say that lectures teach their listeners only to be passive and accepting...