Word: hapless
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...unwilling to sacrifice his dream of a close-knit family, no matter what the wishes of that 'family' might be. He brings together his frantic ex-wife Trina (Leslie Yahia), antisocial son Jason (Chris Terrio), and vain lover Whizzer (Michael Stone) all under one roof. Marvin's hapless efforts to fit all the pieces of his life together provide the comic energy of the first half. Flung into this house of neurotics is also Martin's less-than-stable psychiatrist, Mendel (Reese Snow), who is immediately love-struck for Trina...
...early 19th century, in the Russian town of Undergrad, a suburb of Moscow. Undergrad's residents--Undergraduates, naturally--are peasants. Beet farmers. Male beet farmers. And therein lies the town's problem. Among its entire population, there is but one woman: Katya Ballzov, a homely, hapless matchmaker...
Appearances to the contrary, Lui is not some hapless soul condemned to a lower circle of Dante's Inferno. She has been happily doing such work for eight years as one of the 95 product testers for Consumer Reports, the monthly magazine that has served as an indispensable guide for millions of shoppers since 1936. And a major reason for CR's success is the rigorous, painstaking, maybe obsessive and some might even say nutty striving for objectivity that Ginny Lui and her colleagues bring to the testing of products...
...enthusiastic, excitable man, Del Monaco is a hands-on operative with his casts. At a piano rehearsal for Boccanegra, a chorister who stepped in front of the hero received a genial tongue lashing. The hapless soprano assigned to cover for Kiri Te Kanawa should she get sick had a bad day, going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth...
Monday night, Amherst was the latest victim of the machine that is the Harvard men's squash team. The unbeaten racquetmen (11-0 dual, 5-0 Ivy) dismantled a hapless group of Hersters...