Word: haplessness
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...stylized businessman who appears on the fares, holding one of his now-eponymous tickets aloft, is a reincarnation of Charlie, the hapless commuter popularized by the Kingston Trio, a folk group, in a 1959 recording...
...rise, in part because the building of offices is running 50% ahead of the growth in white-collar employment. Among the first cities to be hit by the glut were Denver and Houston, where demand for office space collapsed because of the downturn in the oil and gas industry. Hapless developers wound up with rows of "see-through buildings," thus named because they have so few occupants and interior fixtures. The developers of Houston's 34-story Phoenix Tower, who were unable to find any major tenants for the building, simply mothballed the structure to wait for better times...
Animation Aardman Animations www.aardman.com The official site of the studio that created Wallace, the hapless yet well-meaning, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his faithful canine companion, is a treasure trove of video clips (click on Show Reel) and links to character sites including www.wandg.com, where you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Wallace & Gromit's first feature-length movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, due in theaters in October...
...Young Communist League who served as Britain's Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, a committed pro-European appointed by one of the E.U.'s most Euro-skeptic countries. He played a central role in the British Labour Party's makeover from an unpopular assemblage of hapless lefties to the formidable vote-getting machine it has become. But Mandelson is also notoriously Machiavellian and polarizing, well-known for using anonymous briefings to favored journalists to advance himself and trash his enemies. He can be quite taken with his own grandeur. Says a longtime associate: "I always thought he would...
...cast, however, delivers the sometimes groan-worthy material with aplomb, throwing themselves into the jailings, cleanings, tangos, water-torture attempts, and unrequited pinings with zeal. As Dimna, Jones struts, saunters, and laughs evilly over her today-the-dining-hall-tomorrow-the-world outlook. As Peter, the hapless roommate of the kidnapped George, Sheldon is adorably overeager in his pursuit of Veronica...