Word: haplessness
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Following its opening day, training camp-like exercise against the forever-hapless Lions and back-to-back blankings at the hands of two nationally ranked, non-league superiors, the Harvard football team gets its first meaningful challenge of the 1986 campaign today...
Last week, Joe Restic conducted a clinic on class. His Crimson squad beat hapless Columbia, 34-0, but in the process Restic tried his hardest not to run up the score: he kept the ball on the ground, and he played his subs early and often. Restic even sent eight different quarterbacks into the game, six of whom were ordered not to throw the ball...
...other words--with all due respect to the incredibly generous woman who allowed herself to be used as a human guinea pig for 114 days--so far, this cure has been proven to work only on an abnormal sample. The researchers explained that the reason they chose this hapless woman was that her unique biological clock made her body experience what is the middle of the night for most people in the early evening. This way, they could conduct their research in the afternoon rather than in the middle of the night...
...save him. Larry Paulsen, who displays range as the clownish Touchstone in As You Like It and as Titus' loyal brother, brings off an even trickier feat in Measure: allowing a modern audience to enjoy as fully as Elizabethan groundlings must have the dimwit puns and malapropisms of the hapless constable Elbow...
...characters wearing some 375 costumes and 75 wigs. Yet the epic sweep almost never overwhelms the emotional intimacy. Good ultimately triumphs in each of the half a dozen interwoven plots, but the show ends with the now wealthy title character carrying an abandoned boy--a symbol of the hapless children whom Nicholas frees from the sadistic Dotheboys Hall and of the innumerable others who continue to suffer poverty and abuse, in Dickens' time and our own. Fans of the original will find few differences in the new staging, again by Trevor Nunn (Cats) and John Caird (Les Miserables). Most...