Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lighter than helium and just about as dense, this adventure farce is a pleas ant enough way to pass a little time. Di rector Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio, Cartouche) has a blithe liking for unlikely situations and hapless heroics...
Steve Martin and Bob Mellen also had the hot stick, blitzing the hapless Williams defense for four and three tallies respectively...
...organized power of large, militant tenant groups is a mystery to me. His "balanced analysis" fails to show that the current economic crisis comes down hardest of all on the minimum living standards of poor and working people and only secondarily upon landlords and hapless local governments--while the profits of large banks and corporations are safeguarded at all (social) costs. Such a failure to target corporate profit leads only to a good deal of handwringing about "complexities" and to shallow, ideological hopes for improvement. Each of us grasps the deeper reality when she will, usually after further study...
...Brown lacrosse squad waltzed onto Soldiers Field yesterday with the intentions of two-stepping their way by a traditionally hapless Harvard team. The Crimson however entered with a floorshow of its own and nearly stunned the top team in New England before succumbing to two last fourth quarter tallies...
...Crimson takes on a hapless Brown squad in a double header today on soldiers Field at 1 p.m. while Threadgold goes up to Dartmouth to umpire a twin bill between the Big Green and Yale...