Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great many people by surprise. For those who still believed that art had some practical revolutionary function, it was as baffling as the evaporation of the American radical left after 1970. But ideas exist for as long as people use them, and by 1976 "avant-garde" was a useless concept: social reality and actual behavior had rendered it obsolete. The ideal-social renewal by cultural challenge-had lasted 100 years, and its vanishing marked the end of an entire relationship, eagerly sought but not attained, of art to life...
...brooding baldies who have spent fortunes on useless hair-growing potions and lotions, hope seems to recede as steadily as their hairlines. But now comes word that a respected pharmaceutical firm, the Upjohn Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., is investigating a chemical that could lead to development of the first successful hair restorer. The drug's name: minoxidil...
...defense attorneys, came from test firings by the then chief of detectives, who had custody of Banks' gun and was a major state witness. The detective, Phillip ("Shug") Howard, has since lost three police jobs for tampering with evidence and forgery, and prosecutors concluded that he would be useless at a third trial. "What's right," says Banks, "comes...
...draft follow this registration, it could be for the purpose of fighting wars in Guatemala, E1 Salvador or elsewhere in Latin America. Continuing troubles in the Middle East have made enforcement of the "Carter doctrine" to protect American oil supplies more likely--involvement that would lead only to the useless loss of life and the possibility of nuclear escalation...
...right of center. As conservatives sensed, the country had been an incubative conservative since the late '60s. Only Nixon's muck-up could have delayed their eventual birth and triumph. Sick and tired of the vast, clogged federal machine; sick and tired of being broke; fed up with useless programs, crime, waste, guilt; not to mention shame in the eyes of the world?derision from our enemies, dismay from our allies?fed up with all that, and to put a fine point on it, fed up with Jimmy Carter, what else would the nation do but hang a right...