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...played the role of pied piper to an unrestrained cheering mob whose behavior must have made the hapless nonwinners feel like the vanquished gladiators in ancient Rome--thumbs down, and bring in the lions! ROSE WONG MACMICHAEL Bradenton, Florida...
...again re-entering in October and garnering 19% of the vote. Volume II begins as our protagonist, after spending months of coy obfuscation and many millions creating his perhaps inaptly named Reform Party, declares his intentions forthrightly to his amiable megaphone, Mr. Larry King, but not before luring one hapless Coloradan by the name of Richard Lamm into the race so as to assure voters that Mr. Perot himself was not averse to competition...
LESSON NO. 1: IF A STORY HURTS, CUT IT OFF FAST. Dole's tobacco debacle recalls another hapless Republican 20 years ago--President Gerald Ford, who during a 1976 debate with challenger Jimmy Carter denied that Eastern Europe was dominated by the Soviet Union. Ford's campaign manager, James Baker, wanted to immediately correct the mistake, but Ford stubbornly refused--and was hammered for it endlessly. So too Dole, who first remarked in mid-June that cigarettes were not necessarily addictive for all smokers. Instead of correcting himself, as top staff members urged, he dug in deeper, setting himself...
...speaking loudly, insulting everyone around him. His knife-in-the-back treatment of Tom-- he sets Tom adrift on a dinghy, embarrasses him by making him seem ill-bred, makes him steer the boat while he has sex with Marg-- makes him hard to like by any standards. The hapless Marg is wholly pitiable, toting around a guitar to which she croons mercilessly, plotting out her book on Fra Angelica, becoming a pawn in Philipe and Tom's rivalry and being utterly unable to fight back. The weakness of her character and even of her facial features is evident when...
...bork is to attack a public figure systematically (thus immortalized is the hapless Judge Robert Bork). Calculus is not only a field of mathematics but also an all-purpose reckoning ("the calculus of political appeal"). To incentivize is to encourage. The inner child is the infantile wretch that lurks within the adult psyche. Outercourse is sex without penetration. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake-up call, alas, refuse...