Word: uselessness
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...this column we call Rover, has hit that stage where he's testing the boundaries of truth. Having snatched a toy away from his younger sibling while I have my back turned, he'll deny ever doing it, or claim preposterously, "she was finished with it." It's useless to point out to him that what he's saying is easily disproved. His bereft sister is wailing beside him. He simply refuses to back down from...
...responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians, Thai army officers took hair, finger nail and other samples from the body before it was cast onto a burning heap of tires and old furniture. "Those who poisoned Pol Pot were close to him," Surayud said. "They thought he was useless and would cause trouble." Still hiding in the jungle nearly 20 years after being forced from power, it wasn't likely the deposed despot would ever give up his dream of ruling again. Not long after he died, the last remnants of his Khmer Rouge signed a peace deal with...
...Sidney has a kvetching mama, who calls him way too often, and a scrupulous kid brother Mike. In the movie, they are sensibly excised as being useless to our understanding of Sidney. This creature didn't come out of a womb but from under a rock. He has no lineage; he created himself, in the dark, dank, rank cave of his ambitions. The film is interested only in how he gets by in this "dog-eat-dog" world. ("Every dog will have his day," says the movie Sidney, who's full of animal metaphors.) At its black heart, "Sweet Smell...
Random passenger checks at airports are completely useless. We've all been there in the waiting lounge, rolling our eyes in disbelief as the 80-year-old Irish nun, the Hispanic mother of two, the Japanese-American businessman, the House committee chairman with the titanium hip are randomly chosen and subjected to head-to-toe searching for...what...
...hook, and rounded off by Del’s spiritual-mentor rap is one of those songs. The songs that lodge in the crevices of the brain, and emerge periodically to sun themselves, setting an entire room absently humming, “I’m useless / But not for long…” Yet it might have all gone unnoticed, were it not for Hewlett’s trippy videos and their goofy characters. For, as far as their public image is concerned, those characters from the video are the band: 2-D, the Albarn character with...