Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gets tangled up in the ill fortunes of his passenger, a hit man with a cheap line of chatter (Tony Musante) and his girl (Trish Van Devere), who is supposed to be a moll but looks a good deal more like a Peck & Peck model. The suspense is so listless that the characters seem considerably less likely to perish from gunshot than from atrophy...
Minnesota had every reason to give up when All-American Wally Olds went off at 17:56 for hooking, but it was Harvard which gave up. The Crimson power play was listless, and just before the penalty ended, Mike Antonovich took the puck from Cavanagh behind the Crimson net and sent it out frost where Matchsky was set up. The game was tied again...
...lust and filthy lucre stand behind every moral platitude. Excessive length and repetitiveness are the major drawbacks Loot has as a play, but a failure of momentum must, inevitably, hobble black comedy unless a compelling basis for suspense gives coherence to the dramatic situation. Case in point: Secret Ceremony, listless, enervated; Pale Fire, taut, compelling...
...game had its exciting moments but in general was rather a listless affair. By the third period action had dropped to a bare minimum as only nine shots were fired on goal during the last period...
Harry stays on, too obstinate and too desperate to admit defeat. Archie and Gus return to the States, back to their families, their jobs, their listless lives. When the cab from the airport drops them off, they stand in their neighboring driveways, sharing a moment of mute terror. Finally, one finds words: "What's he going to do without us?" They stare silently at each other for a moment more. Then they go home...