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...both celebrating and condemning the nihilistic flag flown by Reykjavík's listless postyouths, Kormákur managed to capture the city's brand of self-deprecating cool before it joined Björk as a cultural export. Today, you won't find too many Icelanders moaning so publicly about their dark, isolated lot in life. But you will find the spots where Hlynur and his friends live out their days of beer, cigarettes and one-night stands. Chief among them is Kaffibarinn, the pub at the fulcrum of the movie's social world, which still challenges its guests...
Philip III of Spain is one of history's also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velázquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...slaughter into a match that ended with a dizzying super-tiebreaker. “He was running around on the baseline, [and] that’s not anything close to his game,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said of Kumar’s listless 6-1 first set loss. “He’s so dangerous when he starts taking forehands and putting away vollies.”But in the second set, Kumar unleashed the game that he is known and feared for, punching shots to all points on the court...
...other two doubles pairs, both of which lost, giving Pepperdine the doubles point.In singles, the only victories came at No. 4 and 5, from Nguyen and freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien.HARVARD 4, SAN DIEGO STATE 3Down 3-1 overall, it looked as though Harvard’s promise to itself that listless play wouldn’t slow it down would go unkept only three days after it had been made. But then, three of its most veteran players—Ermakov, Nguyen, and Clayton, each playing their third set—turned the tide, kept the promise, and carried their team...
...locked in what seems like a general-election campaign and lame-duck Bush fading from the headlines, it has to figure out how not to seem like yesterday's news. At times recently, the network has appeared uncertain about its focus. Its primary-night coverage has felt staid and listless. Sometimes it has gone tabloid with celebrity-news, true-crime and scandal stories (WEBSITES POSTING SEXY PICS LIFTED FROM FACEBOOK). At other times it has retreated into a kind of war-on-terrorism news-talgia, playing up threatening chatter and new missives from al-Qaeda leaders while its rivals...