Word: uselessness
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...understand the logic that unless it'sperfect it's useless," Abrahamson said, addingthat it was far better to be struck by oneballistic missile than 8,000. "There is no finaltechnical solution. The final solution is a humansolution, but we are not yet ready for that," hesaid...
...character. What if, Le Carre seems to suggest, David Cornwell did not break away from the murky world of cold war espionage to become an acclaimed writer? Might he have ended up like Magnus, middle-aged and distorted by a past that makes him good at his job but useless as a husband, friend and father...
...enough, by a cockney signora. Overhearing Lucy and her cousin complain that their room lacks a view of the Arno River, George's father (Denholm Elliott) offers to exchange the two ladies' rooms for his and his son's, which do possess the coveted perspective. Such an amenity is useless to him, he explains, for "my vision is within." So is that of his son, who is perhaps overly introspective, a characteristic telegraphed by his habit of constantly drawing question marks everywhere...
Other entrants were less realistic, predicting such things as rocket-propelled "space-hotels" and helicopter house-trailers. TWA President Richard Pearson said one entrant predicted that only monkeys would inhabit the world in 1985 and that air travel would be useless...
...Cabot House. One would think that as master of a Quad House, she would have been perhaps a little more sensitive to Quad residents who understandably are peeved by the now regrettable condition of the Quad. Such "art" has made the Quad into one giant sno-cone practically useless to those who do not desire to be sticky and cherry flavored...