Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graces, but his venom is directed out there somewhere--a romantic who has retreased to snideness since romance died. Richard Bone is a lazy Ivy League, ostensibly working around a marina selling boats, but more often than not hopping from one matron's bed to another, a bored and listless stud. What little structure there is in their lives is provided at Cutter's house--a cramped, cozy bungalow on a suburban street in Santa Barbara and by his wife. Mo (Lisa Eichhorn), a companion and sometimes earth mother...
...Stripes screenplay, by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg and Harold Ramis, was tailor-made for Murray, who plays the role of John Winger, a lazy, listless yet lovable failure. After losing his job, his car and his girlfriend in that order. Winger, along with his sidekick Russell Zisky (Ramis), decides to join the Army simply because he is too lazy to do anything else. The problems quickly (and predictably) begin when Winger--an incessant clown--meets up with the brass of the United States Military...
...told them that their prestige scale has prevented them from exploring some of the most important areas of medicine, and that their colleagues over at the Law School--from which he graduated in 1958--suffer from the same malady. They are, he has charged, "technically excellent" but socially "listless," unresponsive to the needs of the people. He has urged medical students to reject the status scale of the current faculty and to venture into low-prestige areas such as research of accident prevention. From the students he has received an ovation: from most of the faculty, polite applause...
...this afternoon in New Haven, Norton took control of the play after nearly a period of listless, scoreless hockey. The first-team All-Ivy defenseman stickhandled out of her own zone, eluded a trio of Eli defenders and rifled a drive past Yale goalie Betsy Manon to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead...
...night everything went right for the Harvard hockey team. It was the night the Crimson (6-11) escaped from its self-imposed manacles of a listless offense and an immobile defense. With a display of force that had lurked just below the surface all year, the icemen made every one of the failures and disappointments that have spotted this unhappy season vanish into the misty Boston Garden...