Word: bumbler
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...crowds at election night parties, one finds rosy-cheeked co-eds and would-be politicos cheering for candidates who could not possibly merit such unflagging devotion. And the most curious thing of all: whether election night means concession or celebration, indeed whether their candidate is a winner or a bumbler, a reliable crowd of rowdy students is always there...
Still, a nagging, primal suspicion lingers: What if the man is simply weak? A bumbler? Incapable of running a tight ship? It's a fear that Clinton's Swaggart act doesn't alleviate--in fact, for some guys, it makes it worse. "He's wimping out," the sailor sighs after hearing about yet another Clinton apology. "I can't stand to watch it. A President wimping...
...PHRASE] Cartoon bumbler in live-action comedy...
Garry Trudeau intended to be humorous in his satiric look at the home life of Russian cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev and his wife [ESSAY, Sept. 1], but succeeded only in painting a very negative image of Tsibliyev as a bumbler. How easy it is for Trudeau to take the difficulties of the Mir space station and place them squarely on the shoulders of one person. Putting a space station thousands of miles above the earth is a great scientific achievement. Just because Tsibliyev is a Russian, he is ridiculed. Don't forget that Mir is the only manned space station...
...rely upon to guide us on so long and stormy a journey is himself so feckless and equivocal. Although "most royal" and a "noble heart," Hamlet unwittingly destroys almost everyone dear to him-even while asking us to regard his eventual death not as the farcical passing of a bumbler but as the tragic extinguishing of a hero...