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...Chump or Champ: Why is Hillary Standing by Her Man?" This was the theme of a committee discussion held at the Institute of Politics (IOP), audaciously termed a debate by the Harvard Political Union (News, Feb. 4). Amid the worn jokes and vacuous slogans, several people of more noble and gracious intent than me tried bravely to provoke an intelligent discussion of the budding scandal in Washington. Sadly, they were doomed by the near-comic choice of topic...
...longer redeem it. Youthful abandon continues to stretch boundaries, but any spirit of adventure has been replaced by sad desperation. Halfway through Dylan's unintentionally elegaic performance, my schoolgirl friends stopped drinking, smoking and fondling each other. They sat slumped in their chairs, staring blankly into the vacuous arena. Suddenly, one girl vomited onto the middle-aged couple in front of her. As the couple leapt up in horror, the girls took their ill companion and stumbled out the nearest exit. It is a shame they had to leave so early. Dylan's closing number, "Rainy Day Women...
When computers were first being developed, they had a definite purpose--primarily military. Some were used in the development of complex arms calculations; others for satellite and radar. But today it seems that beyond speed, the purpose of further computer technology development is vacuous...
...things one can say about JENNY MCCARTHY--the words trashy, vacuous and semitalented come swiftly to mind--one certainly can't accuse her of taking herself too seriously or being coy. In her new book, Jen-X (for which she was reportedly paid more than $1 million), McCarthy confesses with unstarlike candor that she wet her bed until she was seven, spread a rumor that a girl at her school was a lesbian and peed in a guy's bed after a drunken date. Also that her breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft...
...Where's the beef?"--now there was a piece of rhetoric. Artful, no. But short, loaded and deadly. Three words, and Gary Hart's vacuous 1984 presidential campaign was forever deflated...