Word: haplessness
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With this sudden burst, Meagher, with the help of attackmen Rich Rainaldi and Gary Pedroni, made the hapless Huskies look like leftover drowning victims from the Adams House raft race...
Amid all this, the Carter Administration has appeared paralyzed and unable to cope with problems that it does not fully understand. Quips Alfred Kahn, the hapless presidential anti-inflation adviser: "Anybody who isn't schizophrenic these days just isn't thinking clearly...
...Moreover, the relationships between commercials and fairy tales are too strong to ignore. Princes and Princesses Charming, sturdy folk and innocent children are besieged by malicious forces. Tooth imps and underarm pixies generate embarrassing vapors; gremlins leave grimy stigmata on clothing, and devilkins foul points and plugs. Inevitably, the hapless are rescued by products borne by genii in plastic bottles and godmothers in overalls...
...thoroughly loathsome villain. Half-naked, he revels in his own corruption and derides the courtiers who hide their inward decay with fine clothes and a gracious manner. He listens at keyholes, squirming on the floor as he does, and obtains the evidence of her clandestine marriage that dooms the hapless Duchess. Sands mimes better than anyone else in the cast. Referred to more than once as a serpent, he slithers across the stage. Sands' first entrance is a masterpiece of--literally--insinuation...
...assignment was to shoot publicity photos of top-ranking diplomats partying on Dominican Independence Day, Feb. 27. The reception, it turned out, was stormed by terrorists belonging to Colombia's M-19 guerrilla organization, who seized 56 guests as hostages, including 14 ambassadorsand one hapless photographer. Since then Guzmán has kept busy recording the surprisingly cheerful activities during the captives' five-week ordeal. Last week guerrillas released six more of the "non-diplomats," reducing the number of hostages to 23. Otherwise, negotiations between terrorists and the Colombian government, conducted in a panel truck outside...