Word: hapless
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Roger Clinton has always borne a resemblance to Fredo Corleone, the hapless brother in The Godfather. Sources tell TIME that more than a year ago, after the FBI learned of Roger's attempts to influence the U.S. Parole Commission on behalf of heroin trafficker Rosario Gambino, the bureau wanted to run a sting on the President's half brother. The investigation petered out. Sources also say that J.T. Lundy, former head of Calumet Farms, which employed Roger following his release from prison in 1986, offered him stock in a Venezuelan coal deal in return for help with legal problems. (Lundy...
...other was with Walter Matthau. Lemmon was his longtime buddy's Costello in 1966's "The Fortune Cookie," as the hapless cameraman trampled by a runaway football player and browbeaten into filing a false insurance claim by his ambulance-chasing brother-in-law. In 1968's "The Odd Couple," Lemmon was the surrealistically fastidious Felix Unger to Matthau's slovenly Oscar Madison - a movie whose comedic bliss is occasionally spoiled by the discomfort brought on by the sheer force of Lemmon's unrelenting loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring...
...constant cigar, he could look at times like Mephistopheles in a Brechtian update of Faust. Like Wright, he also sustained a 19th century romantic notion of himself as an artist, a man answerable only to his own instincts. (After just a few years of marriage in the 1920s, his hapless wife Ada decided to stop resisting his regular infidelities and move out.) Mies insisted that the architect must surrender his urge to add personal "touches," but he broke his rule on some of his greatest buildings. The slender steel mullions that run up the walls of the Seagram Building...
...already earlier this month, a real barnburner: it so absorbed the public that 40% of Britons forgot to vote. Good thing it was only a warmup act. The main event will unfold over the next few weeks, as the Conservative Party selects a new leader to replace the hapless William Hague. It should make for great entertainment. The frontrunner, Michael Portillo, has shed his reputation as a right-wing rabble-rouser to become the soothing, centrist voice of Tory moderation. "Our party has to appeal to the whole range of people who live in Britain," Portillo says, a commitment...
...designer Rick Carter, handsomely evoke every sci-fi dystopia from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Blade Runner and this year's Monkeybone. Come to the Flesh Fair--a sort of Thunderdome demolition derby where vengeful humans, led by the demagogic Lord Johnson-Johnson (Ireland's Brendan Gleeson), set hapless automatons aflame--and try to get out fast. Spend the night in Rouge City, a city of sensual schlock that is filled with Kubrick-a-brac like a Clockwork Orange milk bar and a sign reading STRANGELOVE's. End up in the grayest place on Earth, a submerged Manhattan, where...