Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...posture, body collapsed in on itself as if conserving all energy for a mind whose unfathomable power emerges only via his ever gleaming eyes. Whether peering over a winning poker hand in a Harvard dorm, patiently waiting out one of Jobs' flailing rages or cutting a deal with some hapless executive, Hall never loses--or lets us lose--sight of Gates as the man who will be king...
...first homestand of the season against St. Lawrence and Cornell. ECAC Coach of the Year Katey Stone put Mleczko, Shewchuk and Botterill on the first line "just to see what would happen." The threesome tallied nine goals and 10 assists as a rejuvenated Crimson offense spanked both the hapless Saints and Big Red by the score...
...even happy to riff on his 12-year relationship with Hurley, the often scantily clad Valkyrie to whom he seems content to play the hapless chorus boy. "Elizabeth made me buy a house," he confesses, "and we spent two years having idiot, pretentious, criminal bozos decorate it. It's now completely hideous, and I'm quarreling with her because I don't want to live there. The shower smells of dead people; I hate it." Instead, he hangs out in their old flat around the corner. "I go there and watch the football and drink beer. But I think that...
...beloved, hapless Orioles haven't given this gritty port city much to cheer about lately, and neither did the drizzly weather last Monday. But you could feel a tropical sizzle building as the lights came up at Camden Yards that evening, and about 150 police officers--three times the usual contingent--surrounded the place. A salsa band heated up the bricks behind left field, and the usual ballpark air of stale beer and popcorn gave way to the exotic aromas of rum-and-mint mojitos and fine Havana cigars, which Yanqui yuppies puffed in violation of the U.S. trade embargo...
...been running against a Katie Holmes overacheiver, she would stomp all over her), burns with her steely blue eyes (which tend to match her outfits) and pursed lips. Witherspoon wants Tracy to be a walking display of pyrotechnics--a winner at all costs. Broderick, as her nemesis, plays the hapless fool even better than he normal does. (Besides, we give him serious bonus points for having to walk around half the film with a bee-stung, infected eyelid...