Word: feckless
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...altogether fitting that when Herron finally got an N.F.L. offer, it came from the feckless New England Patriots. Though Herron led the league in kickoff returns and return yardage last season, the team ran up a discouraging record of 5-9. But this fall Head Coach Chuck Fairbanks put Herron in the starting backfield, made a few other adjustments, and suddenly Boston was the cradle of rebellion against the N.F.L.'s reigning powers. The Pats opened the season by trouncing the champion Dolphins, beat the Giants and for an encore knocked off the powerful Rams. Going into last weekend...
...shootout in a giant, steaming laundry-can still be summoned up. But the rest of the film is heartless, tasteless and noisily desperate. It is always sad to see an overreacher turn into an underachiever, but to find the tense talent capable of The Manchurian Candidate busying himself with feckless projects like this is infuriating. When Frankenheimer's contempt for the picture is not seeping onto the screen, his weariness is. One wants to (and should) turn away from the spectacle...
...nets, Bruce Poliquin and Leroy Thompson defused the few salvos from the feckless Tech offense. Poliquin earned three, and Thompson two saves...
...bordellos, sent the highrollers packing, and imported pianos and preachers in a wistful attempt to transform mining camps into mini-Philadelphias. Baby Doe was not one of them. A pocket Venus from Oshkosh and no better than she should be, blonde, blue-eyed Elizabeth McCourt Doe had shed a feckless husband and arrived in Leadville - Colorado's Magic Mountain - almost at the moment in 1880 when the played-out gold fields turned out to be mere icing on the world's richest slice of silver. She became "the Silver Queen" heroine of ballad and bawdy tale, an opera...
...Varrick, Matthau preserves a certain feckless, shambling decorum. He dispenses his lines with the wry authority of a bartender adding a twist to a martini. There is also an especially sharp performance by Sheree North, portraying a shady photographer. The movie, overall, is smoothly customized entertainment, but Siegel has a weakness for gratuitous cruelty. A few scenes have a seaminess that goes beyond simple atmospherics. · Jay Cocks