Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This game gave him one more reason to hate his one-time cross-town rival. With junior Matt Mallgrave leading the way, Harvard trounces the hapless Tigers...
Bush and campaign manager Robert Teeter worked out their New Hampshire game plan after the President returned from his hapless trip to Japan. Their strategy: take some blame for the economy, stress Bush's longtime ties to the state and, except for some well-placed reminders about the Desert Storm triumph, avoid foreign policy. Masking his patrician demeanor beneath a folksy veneer, Bush began dropping his final g's and r's with a vengeance, substituting "fixin' ta" for "going to" and quoting the lyrics of country- music songs...
Russian sentimentality can be honey sweet, but Tolstaya spikes it with the vinegar of the circumstances that afflict her hapless dreamers. The story of an 80-year-old mother who has spent most of her life caring for her retarded son is told in the voice of that man-child. His burbling narrative takes us through his day as he waits for his mother to rise, dress her thickened body and take up the constant guard she can never relinquish. Like the immobile, anonymous soldier guarding a tomb, she is always present but never animated as the pain...
...before Harvard meets the Eagles, it has two more immediate concerns: Rensselaer (9-10 overall, 3-8 ECAC) and Union (2-11-1 overall, 1-9-1 ECAC) skate into Bright Center next Friday and Saturday. Last Friday, Union won its first-ever ECAC Division l game, beating hapless Dartmouth,2-1 , in Hanover...
Along the way, though, a lot of the fun goes out of this tale of a maladroit family and hapless, unwilling tax inspector. There is a dark and extremely unamusing family secret that has made the Catchprices so miserable and so horrid to one another. What begins as slapstick evolves into tragedy, and Carey does not adequately prepare the ground for this transition. In the end, a reader is left with the uncomfortable sense of having laughed in all the wrong places. If that was Carey's intention, he succeeded, but he should perhaps expect only a muted form...