Word: listless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half--yeah, that's for sure," Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder said when asked if her team was listless yesterday...
Dinner trays have been picked up, in-flight magazines have been read, and the plane is too small to have a movie screen. People are listless and more than a little bored...
Richard Linklater dazzled many among the twentysomething set with his last movie, "Slacker." Portraying the dead-end life in sleepy Austin, Texas, the film was embraced by Generation Xers who felt it explained why they were so determinedly listless. "Before Sunrise" -- his newest effort -- may serve a similar purpose for the same group in their attempts to express their romantic feelings, says TIME critic Richard Corliss. Still, the movie, which basically follows an extended conversation between a guy and a girl who meet on a train, falls flat, Corliss feels. "This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets...
...film's essential episode, the disappearance of the petulant Anna (Lea Massari), occurs within the first hour. A luxury yacht's cargo of listless passengers disembarks on a rocky, semi-deserted island. Anna, moody, beautiful and brown-haired, has recently sent a fake alarm through the party when she cries "shark" in pretend. This act of immature attention-getting sets the scene of her disappearance, which will ultimately become the only certainty in the film, in a context of folly and childish insignificance...
...degree to which we are still waiting, or still failing without access to the reasons has become a salient point to legions of more or less listless young people. Antonioni offers no answers, and his attempts at tenderness are few and far between, but "L'Avventura" frames a vocabulary of a kind of despair, both poignant and banal, that can speak for a part of today's unnamed generation...