Word: haplessness
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These rotten little kids are meant to carry the freight of the novel's frenzied bully-boy philosophy. In this hapless screen translation by Lewis John Carlino (a scenarist making his directorial debut), they just come off looking like second-class citizens of The Village of the Damned. Fortunately, it is impossible to take the movie seriously on any level. A film maker who uses pounding pistons and dripping hoses for phallic symbols is a threat only to himself...
...hapless losers managed three shots in the final frame, but no goals. The closest they came was in the final minutes, when Engineer goalie Jeff Singer fired a Gilman clear--a full-field pass--into the Harvard end. The ball eluded Crimson netminder Ken First and rolled into the crease. An MIT attackman struggled furiously in the mud to shovel the ball into the net, but First got it first, diving back into the goal mouth and clamping the ball with his stick...
Well, the day, which was sunny, and the meet, which was a laugher, were just right for flexing muscles: Harvard's undefeated track team thrashed a hapless Yale squad yesterday, 114-40, in sundrenched Soldiers...
...gigantic wake, the kind oarsmen stop for in practice, missed the Cadet shell but broadsided the hapless Crimson eight. By the time the heavies had wiped the water from their eyes, the Cadets had cruised by to another half-length lead...
...kingdom to come to America to fulfill his life's burning ambition--to beat America's greatest matmen. The Prince uses extra-professional tactics which some whimpering idiots claim to be unethical. Before a match, for example, he sometimes goes into a trance and puts a spell on his hapless opponent. Other times he makes balls of fire emanate from his fingertips. He has been known to burn the eyes out of the sockets of his helpless victims...