Word: listless
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...what happened to those lazy, listless baby busters who supposedly typified the new generation? Beavis and Butt-head were their icons; Beck's Loser was their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label...
Grandma died just before Mother's Day in the early morning of May 8, 1988. I will never forget holding her hand and praying over her listless body while she suddenly opened her eyes and looked around the room. She said nothing as her heart stopped beating, but squeezed my hand tightly as she slipped the surly bounds of earth to touch the face...
...season, Harvard went to Brown and Yale, and unsurprisingly lost both games. The team was listless and just seemed to want everything to end. The Crimson finished the year 9-17, winning only one of its last six games...
...British writer Alex Garland, 27. The reason it takes half of Garland's moody tale for Kerouac's ghost to tap the reader on the shoulder is that the feel of the two novels could not be more different. On the Road was loony, funny, electric; The Beach is listless, pallid, drifting without object...
...true, the campaign has often been as listless and unfocused as it has looked. Last week, for example, Dole spent his waning days as Senate majority leader--he leaves this Tuesday--pushing to a vote two doomed causes: the balanced-budget amendment and a land-based antimissile system. Both lost, not only on the floor, as Dole knew they would, but in public attention. That was captured by two of Bill Clinton's ideas: a new tax credit for college students and their parents, and a $200 reduction in closing costs on house purchases financed by FHA mortgages. Both proposals...