Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...character of the naive bohemian and turns her into a fascinating and realistic person, the perfect complement to the Lear-ish Susan. Fass captures Alice's precarious perch on the line between comedy and cynicism. The audience simultaneously shudders and laughs as she whips sarcasms and insults at her hapless student Dorcas Grey (Sarah Stevenson). Fass knows how to develop a character, and she has the timing and the bearing of a classic comedian, the ideal safety valve in a complex tragedy...
...hapless precedent setter was Lyn Nofziger, 63, a onetime California newsman who served as Ronald Reagan's political director until January 1982. After a 16-day trial, a federal jury in Washington found Nofziger guilty of illegally contacting the White House for three clients of his "communications" firm. They were: New York City's scandal-plagued Wedtech Corp., which paid Nofziger's agency $1 million to help secure an Army small- engine contract; Fairchild Republic Co., which paid his firm $25,000 to promote continued federal funding of A-10 antitank aircraft; and the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association...
...certain circumstances, but should never intentionally cause death. Most physicians concur, though some acknowledge that the line is often hard to draw. Perhaps the harshest indictment of Debbie's treatment comes from doctors who maintain that morphine, used properly, could have kept her comfortable. Her regular physicians, not the hapless resident, believes Minneapolis Neurologist Ronald Cranford, are the "real criminals" for having failed to prescribe adequate medication for her pain. But if the dose required to bring relief also happened to hasten the end of her life, that is something a physician could live with. Pediatrician Kathleen Nolan, an ethicist...
Signs of trouble are all around this year, from Bob Dole's hapless finance director, who was dropped amid reports of inside deals, right down to lowly campaign workers who are openly bending the regulations on fund limits. National politics is beset by special interests and schemers who have their own distant agendas and smell position or profits down the corridors of power. How many Bert Lances and Ed Meeses, with their singular financial styles, are circulating now, eager to wield federal authority next year? What often goes on in the political trenches is not acceptable in the calmer climates...
Even Aaron Altman, the hapless network correspondent in Broadcast News, could not have imagined a worse nightmare than the one that befell CBS on Sept. 11. The news division had already weathered a truly awful year of layoffs, dissension and drooping ratings. Then, on that memorable Friday, network technicians switched to a studio in Miami for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, only to find an anchor chair without Dan Rather. He had left the set minutes before, miffed that coverage of a U.S. Open tennis match was running over. The result was an unprecedented six minutes of empty...