Word: haplessness
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...half, Harvard looks like a real contender for the Ancient Eight crown, but the next half it looks like the hapless Columbia squad of the late...
...sequences, make remarkably rich use of a nearly bare stage. Ann Crumb, who starred in Aspects of Love in London and on Broadway, makes modest Anna's eruption into passion completely believable and is deeply affecting in her final derangement. Surrounding her are exceptional men: Gregg Edelman as the hapless gentleman farmer Levin, Scott Wentworth as a reckless but wholly admirable version of Vronsky and, most striking, John Cunningham, who overcomes caricatured writing of Anna's estranged husband to reveal a man poignantly wrongheaded and, in his way, as doomed as his desperate spouse...
...Campbell's book Diana is the schemer and Charles the hapless one: "She knew he wasn't a scrap interested in her, but she also saw that he was vulnerable." Diana got herself invited to royal occasions by making friends with Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's daughter. Whatever the reality was, Diana expected that when they were married, her husband would devote a great deal of time to her. She was cruelly disappointed. Charles was chilly, his routine masculine and inflexible...
...dead. And then he was dead again. And again. And again. And in the end, he may be politically dead for real: more than half of all voters still harbor "major doubts" about Bill Clinton's character and values. But for now, Clinton is The Man. His hapless primary competitors, the cowardice of others who shied from the fight, and his own dogged (and at times ruthless) determination conspired to have Clinton appear in the sweltering Arkansas sun last Thursday not only alive and well -- his party's candidate for President -- but the creator, almost literally, of another just like...
...Dilbert, despite all his brainpower, is a hapless fool. Good strip, though...