Do not under any circumstances approach these people as their listlessness is highly contagious.

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But most of the pre-revolutionary 1970s were conspicuous for their listlessness, too.

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In the short term, such measures seem to have succeeded: the student movement has quietened down, and there is listlessness in the air.

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Light off: Listlessness and indifference to sweets return.

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Hickenlooper gets the atmosphere of apocalyptic listlessness right the silver-foil walls, the overstuffed thrift-shop furniture, the people sitting around, some naked, some shooting up, with Warhol making himself available for an instant to anyone outrageous enough to grab his attention.

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