Word: listlessly
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...another - Chinatsu shows the uninitiated Kyoko how to masturbate - but the latter recoils from physical love. A stronger movie would have started where this one leaves off, but it's a compact, spare tale shot in night-blue tones, which may ultimately be a metaphor for Japan's listless youth rather than a vigorous statement on sexual identity...
...hopes, she prays her child will get better, and like all the mothers who stay with their children at the hospital, she tends her lovingly, constantly changing filthy diapers, smoothing sheets, pressing a little nourishment between listless lips, trying to tease a smile from the vacant, staring face. Her husband works in Johannesburg, where he lives in a men's squatter camp. He comes home twice a year. She is 25. She has heard of AIDS but does not know it is transmitted by sex, does not know if she or her husband has it. She is afraid this child...
From there, the bottom fell out. After the listless opening to the second half, Delaney-Smith called a timeout and pulled all five starters, in effect throwing her hands up in disgust at the inability of her team to make use of its athletic skill...
...Bill Bradley was willing, and of course he was on next - and sounding extremely presidential. The only politician around with the halo to make "shame on all of us" an applause line gave a tight and moving speech that sounded nothing like the listless death throes of that bruising primary campaign. "Let me get right to the point - we're all here to elect the next president of the United States, Al Gore," he began, but by the time he had made his way through the explanation of how enemy becomes endorsee he had set a very high...
...upon in 1987 when they were homeless and living mostly out of their car. Seven years later, she photographed them again, when they were squatters on an abandoned ranch. In some of the pictures the parents, both heavy drug users, look like pure arsenic--dark-eyed, doped up and listless, though capable of loving gestures, all of which only makes more affecting how much their children seem to need them anyway...