Word: uselessness
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...Useless Music...
...Wedding Crashers” is built around the characters of Beckwith and Grey, best friends who run a divorce mediation firm together. This occupational info is useless, but the opening scene does serve to present us with the key facts: these guys are kind of girly. Wait, I mean, these guys love to crash weddings...
...slave owners as corrupt and un-Christian men. He argued, "They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up." It was useless, he explained in another address, to employ "thundering tones of anathema and denunciation," for denunciation would be met by denunciation, "anathema with anathema...
...final quarter of the book tracks Booth's escape to Virginia, using false names and hobbled by a broken leg, where federal troops eventually catch up to him. He dies while resisting arrest with the final words, "Useless?useless." Geary then wraps up his brief history with a survey of the remaining questions that still surround the events. For example, why did the government remove 18 pages from Booth's journal, and what became of them? Even such open-and-shut cases as Lincoln's murder seem to always have a bit of mystery about them...
...difficulty is that other people think he is special. As a writer, Bascombe is supposed to be smart and sensitive. But mostly he feels dumb and dreamy, "a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality." Not a good state for a sportswriter. But as a fictional character dealing with loss and solitude, Bascombe accounts for many affecting moments. His attempt to interview a former football player confined to a wheelchair is every journalist's nightmare: a hostile subject who undermines the project. The breakup with Nurse Vicki reveals that chilling instant when involved...