Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy worked to perfection. La Jolla once ran up a 45 point lead in the first quarter against a hapless opposition, prompting the other team to quit after just 15 minutes...
Just what was so radical about Taylor's music? In essence, Cecil Taylor broke every rule, and smashed every convention that had been held sacred by the jazz world. His all-out assault on the hapless, half-tuned pianos that sat on the bandstands of most clubs meant that he not only broke the accepted standards of melody, harmony, and song structure, but also countless pianos themselves...
Most disturbing of all was the sense that in this war there was no clearly defined right and wrong. Most outsiders felt instinctive sympathy for the Chechens as the victims of assault, of indiscriminate bombing of civilians -- but sympathy too for the hapless Russian recruits dying because of the ineptitude of their leaders and generals. But could anyone really cheer for Chechen secession? A few voices call for letting regions historically forced into the Russian Federation go free, like the other pieces of the Soviet Empire. But the U.S. and West European governments acknowledged without question Russia's right...
Thankfully, the rest of the play does not follow in the vein of its overly trite prelude. By alternating scenes in which the characters interact with each other or address the audience, Houston creates a finely woven story of some hapless Japanese women trapped in America...
...soft spots on the Garden parquet that Magic Johnson used to complain about are still around, but otherwise, basketball is a sport where tradition and leftovers from a past day pale in influence to what happens now. (Just ask the hapless C's.) And, the "now" is giving Harvard some quiet confidence...