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Their hero is Wilhelm, a hapless clerk whose trousers have a way of falling to his ankles just when they shouldn't. Their Devil is Pegleg, a swallow- tailed lowlife who learned his wiles behind the footlights of some sleazy Weimar cabaret, a la Joel Grey. They are surrounded by weirdos who make the Addams Family look like the Waltons. Among them: Wilhelm's inamorata, the robotically hysterical Kathchen; her fright-wigged father Bertram; an overbearing uncle who, in a hilarious non sequitur, tells the story of how Hemingway sold the movie rights to The Snows of Kilimanjaro...
...picture. Embarrassing realities are suppressed by all characters on all sides, and it is Zenia's particular expertise to unearth these and turn them against those who had considered her a friend. Zenia's aura is big enough and bad enough for her to signal inevitable ruin for any hapless prospect on her list...
...hereceived a head coaching offer in the NFL withsame team he had played for over 20 yearsbefore--the Philadelphia Eagles. After their topchoice for the job, Frank Kush of then-nationalchampion Arizona State, opted to stay at thecollege level, the Eagles went to Restic in thehopes of reviving their hapless offense...
Countries that contribute troops insist on commanding them from afar. Soldiers from Bulgaria, a hapless lot recruited through local newspaper ads, scandalized the Cambodian provinces with their drinking and womanizing, but the U.N. could not discipline them. A U.N. task force has been created to investigate alleged black marketeering by peacekeepers, as well as charges that blue helmets regularly visited a Serb-run brothel outside Sarajevo whose "prostitutes" were in fact Muslim and Croat prisoners...
...Engineers are 2-1-0 so far--they lost to Hockey East's Merrimack before rebounding to destroy hapless Army...