Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COLUMBIA and PENN (tie): Hapless though they may seem, there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for both the Lions and the Quakers. Rookie head coach Bob Naso, an assistant for 20 years at Rutgers, comes to New York and will install a new offense...
...COLUMBIA and PENN (tie): Hapless though they may seem, there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for both the Lions and the Quakers. Rookie head coach Bob Naso, an assistant for 20 years at Rutgers, comes to New York and will install a new offense...
...COLUMBIA and PENN (tie): Hapless though they may seem, there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon for both the Lions and the Quakers. Rookie head coach Bob Naso, an assistant for 20 years at Rutgers, comes to New York and will install a new offense...
What a wonder in the cosmos is this frailty of the human body, without which the mind, too, becomes still, helpless or hapless...
Some of these pyrotechnics fizzle, and all of them operate in a narrative void. One reason Psycho continues to disturb is that Screenwriter Joseph Stefano gave Norman Bates and his hapless victims some emotional resonance. Even if you never screamed while watching Psycho, you could appreciate it for the sense it gave of seemingly ordinary people drawn into a swamp of frustrations and aggressions. De Palma's movies no longer explore these tensions; they have become exhibitions of a master puppeteer pulling high-tension strings. In Dressed to Kill, the marionettes on-screen still respond to De Palma...