Word: haplessness
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...serious cases of life and death or multi-digit law suits with multi-digit lawyer fees. Small claims provides a service to mete out justice in the everyday affairs of the consumer, and for a small fee ($5) anyone can bring forth his or her grievance. As for the hapless student ripped off by the tennis placement agency, she never got justice, but if she had tried a few of the alternatives, she might be ahead today...
...hapless grapplers never had a chance. An ankle injury suffered last weekend by Crimson regular Rick Beller forced freshman Howard Verlin into yesterday's starting lineup at 118. His 8-3 loss was an inauspicious start, both for the young wrestler's varsity career and for Harvard's afternoon...
...Huskies, however, were resilient and relentless--in a word, dogged. Gerry Cowie, Paul MacDougall and Sandy Beadle whisked all over the ice for the heretofore hapless Huntington Hounds, who had never struck Beanpot gold in the tourney's 27 years...
Actually, Has "Washington" Legs? seems more like two plays. Act I, which concerns the planning meeting for the movie organized by the Film Institute of the United States and the Film Institute of the United Kingdom and its hapless representative, Joe Veriato, takes a long satirical swipe at the movie industry, with a representative collection of fools: Mickey Boorman and Pat Sligo, two pot-smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons...
LIKE ANY BURLESQUE, Has "Washington" Legs? depends heavily on individual performances and a lot of business. Stephen Rowe, as the hapless Joe Veriato, seems overwrought in the first act, his pained expressions becoming tiresome; as his assistant Wesley, Tony Shalhoub succeeds with less mugging. I also liked Eric Elice as the silent Dan Rashur and Thomas Derrah, as the hipster director Mickey Boorman in the first act and the lost actor in the second half...