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...Democratic Party's frustration with its rank and file was evident when Geraldine Ferraro went before autoworkers and students in the Midwest and West and became almost accusatory in her professed bafflement over why they preferred Reagan. Ferraro's tone suggested that she viewed her listeners as hapless innocents beguiled by a pitchman into breaking their longstanding contract with the Democrats. Ferraro had discovered the world beyond the Hudson and Potomac rivers...
...brilliantly translated "Dollars and the Demimondaine" is typical of the lot. A black-market moneychanger and his wife go looking for business in a bar frequented by Americans, but the women is mistaken for a prostitute. Unable to explain what he really wants and afraid of Yankee cuckoldry, the hapless Italian runs out and gets every hooker in town to distract the soldiers. The result is party Pi Eta style...
...underscore the point that the assemblages of traits and mannerisms that are his characters are too confused or corrupt for weighty contemplation. Wilson is forbearing about the sins of the flesh, while the transgressions against reason are greeted with disdain. Conservative authority is the secret hero of this book; hapless liberalism and its freebooting institutions are the goats. The result is a sharp irony concisely expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore's position of eminence without being checked or vetted? Questions like this were put in the public mind by the likes...
...25th minute, striker John Catliff put himself on the board. After receiving an intelligent pass from stopper lan Hardington, who sent a beautiful ball from behind the midfield line right into his path, the big Canadian fired a well-placed left-footed volley past the hapless Fenningdorf from about 15 yards...
...Crimson outshot the hapless Engineers, 32-4, and were to dominant on defense that Crimson keeper Matt Ginsburg was only forced to make one save all afternoon, that coming five seconds before the end of the game...