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...were related to some of his favorite subjects--education, the environment, Internet smut--but Gore's performance was frequently off-key. The swoosh of his basketball in the Woodrow Wilson Middle School gym may have been exhilarating, but it could not make up for what had come before: a listless, interminable session in an overheated school library during which Gore droned on and on, consulting index cards and discoursing on the role of public education during the industrial revolution. When the school gave Gore its sweatshirt, he didn't have the presence of mind to unfold the thing, much less...
...released briefly in 1993, before his speeches and writings got him thrown into the slammer again. Only in recent years has he seemed less of a threat, obviously weakened and sometimes listless, wasting away in a cold cell...
...have apparently forgot the need for logical connections and transitions. As a result, the attempt to cross the themes of a modern story of teenage angst with historical drama is doomed from the start, despite valiant efforts by Claire Danes and Jeanne Moreau to elevate the film above the listless script. I Love You, I Love You Not fails as an injudicious, offensive appropriation of the Holocaust...
...fact, AT&T's board and brass are the ones whose intellectual wattage seems to be dimming. The company's stock price has been listless all year despite the bull market, as AT&T has stumbled from one misadventure to another. Its costly drive into local phone service has been stymied, and its steadily falling share of the $70 billion long-distance market is down...
...figures in rock, had whom? On Time Out of Mind, his first CD of new, self-penned material in seven years and his most consistently rewarding album since the '70s, Dylan seems to be haunted by an imaginary, unnamed muse who has come and gone, leaving him loveless and listless, feeling out of fashion and out of time. The situation is desperate, but the album is cathartic and ultimately hopeful: there is salvation, and it comes from within. Dylan's fortunes may be changing...