Word: aimless
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...counterpoint. The music was unrelentingly energetic, but at times suffered from being almost too eclectic. The dexterous guitarist served up ringing riffs that jived perfectly with the group’s pan-Africanist outlook but occasionally slipped into solos that were more reminiscent of Western self-indulgent guitar heroes: aimless, raucous and individualist, if technically impressive...
...waited outside forever,” Fochtman says. According to Sophia’s website, the four-level club can hold up to 550 people during events. The fact that Sophia’s had trouble accommodating the new aimless Harvard social set indicates perhaps just how large an audience exists for the overtures of the women’s groups...
...frequent and teenage prostitution evolved into a regular part of urban life. A "lost generation" started venting their malaise by randomly attacking salarymen, assaulting the homeless and even killing their parents. Japan is still a rich country that pampers its young, but the nation and its children seem increasingly aimless...
...association with Gould based on his Brahms performance: both pianists took the work at almost unbearably slow tempi. Unlike Leonard Bernstein, who performed the work with Gould in 1962, James Bolle did not preface the performance with a disclaimer on artistic differences. The first movement was too long, aimless and lacking in a sense of overarching structure, as every quarter-note beat was pounded out. Lifschitz succeeded much better in the lyrical middle movement, but it was back to slow, calculated playing in the final movement. Luckily, Carter’s Symphonia had left such a strong impression that...
Television, being an expensive mass-market medium, is inherently conservative. And as in any conservative business, executives try to copy past successes. That's why you got so many sitcoms about aimless twenty-somethings who drink suspicious amounts of coffee. But something weird happens when the distinguishing characteristic of the successes--currently HBO's lineup of The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under and Curb Your Enthusiasm--is that they break the mold. What you get is a lot of shows copying not-copying: The Bernie Mac Show, 24, Malcolm in the Middle, Undeclared. You get Innovative...