Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figured out how to wring enough cybercash from its customers to actually make a profit: offer more things to buy. Amazon.com has started selling consumer electronics, games and toys (all billed as holiday gifts) as well as movie videos to go with its books and music CDs. For the hapless holiday shopper in need of ideas, Amazon's new "gift matcher" will make suggestions based on the recipient's interests. And for the truly indecisive: gift certificates you can e-mail...
Saturday's Harvard-Yale Game had to rank near the bottom of the 115 annual contests in excellence on the field. The Elis, who had rebounded from a winless 1997 Ivy season to come in with a 4-2 Ivy record, looked hapless on offense, gaining just 10 total yards in the first quarter. The Crimson's offense looked equally futile, unable to reach the end zone or kick one through the goalposts in the Game's first 30 minutes. At halftime, we were on our feet cheering the Crimson because it was, indeed, an accomplishment to have prevented...
...detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women walk between both plots like a calendar come to life...
...roughly six hours of my time. It took almost two hours just for the very nice tech guy to figure out why the network wouldn't connect to my run-of-the-mill printer. Helpful as he was, the experience bodes poorly for a product geared toward the average, hapless home consumer. While my wireless network finally appears to work, I'd recommend that you don't buy HomeFree until it comes out with a far better instruction manual--and a toll-free help line...
Love is the seed from which the story germinates. The first half of the film--which takes places against the beautiful landscape of a Tuscan village in the early 1940s--follows Benigni's character, a hapless, intelligent and endearing waiter named Guido, as he courts a local schoolteacher, Dora (Nicoletta Braschi). Dora, who is engaged to a Fascist official, falls for his antics from the start, though it takes time for her to decide to leave her other life behind...