Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rowdyman is nearly worthless. None of the characters is interesting: none of the acting is particularly distinguished. Generally an actor cannot be blamed for the lines that he must deliver, but Gordon Pinsent, in the lead role of Will Cole the Rowdyman, forfeited that excuse. He wrote the script...
...heads of public utilities who he said are getting richer and richer at the people's expense. And absentee landlords also came under fire: "The only way to lick the rent problem is to build housing for the people. Then the people will say. 'To hell with your worthless firetraps, because the City and state are building housing...
From Francis Bacon to the Era of Research & Development, Roszak sees science "turning people and nature into mere, worthless things." Science has led to "the politics of technocratic elitism." Worst of all, it has despoiled the human imagination...
...North Atlantic run, by so-called "charter consolidators," also known as "body brokers." Recently the CAB began a drive to clip their wings, and it has forced many out of business. In the process, it has stranded thousands of tourists who held return tickets that had become worthless...
...partly because the flight left not from Paris but from Frankfurt, Germany, to which Ress was hauled by bus. A few days after he arrived in New York, he called at the travel agency's office and found that it was closed up, and that his voucher was worthless...