Word: listless
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...Dodgers breezed past the listless Yankees, 6-1, on a barrage of home runs and the finest pitching Burt Hooton has ever unleashed on anybody. The boys in blue hit homers in each of the first three innings off Hunter as they powered their way to an insurmountable 5-0 lead...
...Protestant work ethic is alive and more than well among older Americans. Study after study has shown what many oldsters feel in their bones: without employment, their lives go blank. They become listless and preoccupied with their frailties, real or imagined. There is a disproportionate death rate among those forced to retire, and 25% of all known suicides are committed by people over 65. Beyond that, years of substantial inflation have eroded their pensions and kept many of them from enjoying the often illusory, but highly touted leisure pursuits of their allegedly golden years. Says Joseph Schwartz, who retired after...
...rest of the film is made of cinema verite sequences from the lives of a couple close to Godard's age, now trapped in the hell of a stultifying middle-class existence. The wife protests that her husband's work has come between them. He putters about the house listless and bored; she can no longer arouse him sexually. The wife complains about her constipation to the kids. When the husband discovers that she has been unfaithful, he punishes her by sodomizing her. During the punishment, they realize that their daughter has been watching. They talk about it complacently. They...
...book is a listless litany of episodes straining to be clever, but failing ignominiously. The only "action" in it has to be supplied by the reader--when he closes the volume...
Considering the kind of crude, exuberant fun that might have been had from such a subject, Cookies, when it isn't forced, is curiously listless. Jean-Pierre Marielle plays the painter well. A few scenes come briefly to life: the manageress of an umbrella shop coyly allowing herself to be seduced; the repressed sister of a Bible salesman peeping at the visiting painter as he undresses for the night; a prostitute, before taking on a customer, matter-of-factly washing his genitals in the sink along with the dishes. But Joel Seria is the kind of literal-minded director...