Word: haplessness
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...drama and the requisite action; Air Force One and In the Line of Fire both were international box-office smashes. Here, Clooney and Walhberg (it's two of the Three Kings) star in the adaptation of the best selling book about a monster storm that attacks a boat of hapless fishermen. It's Twister plus Jaws-the giant shark. Besides its disaster movie attraction, The Perfect Storm has several things going for it. 1) Movies with waves always do well. i.e. Deep Imact. 2) It's opening on the prime July 4 weekend (though The Patriot will provide stiff competition...
...fighters, most of whom were recruited as teenagers, can't be discounted. Last time around, Sankoh used the ability of his forces to brutalize the long-suffering Sierra Leoneans to parlay his way from death row into government. This time, his bargaining chip is likely to be 350 hapless U.N. peacekeepers...
...kill loved ones - a brutal measure designed to cut off the road home - before being dragged into the bush, where Sankoh's drug-addled legions become their only family. Now, his band of battle-hardened killers is on the march again, rounding up U.N. peacekeepers like so many hapless tourists and holding them hostage as it fights its way to the capital. Meanwhile, Sankoh himself appears to have slipped away from the house arrest under which he'd been detained last week. U.N. sources say he eluded his U.N. captors, and has probably rejoined his comrades...
...peace between two sides who're committed to an agreement - which clearly isn't the case in Sierra Leone, where the guerrillas of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) plainly never had any intention of complying with the requirement that they be disarmed. Instead, the rebels simply began attacking the hapless U.N. contingents, composed mostly of troops from other African countries and from India, and took some of them hostage...
...Club. And there was free music, provided by a number of talented student bands and, of course, the main attraction, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Some lounged, others danced and few even found time to paw at a crooked tetherball pole planted in the middle of the lawn. Even the hapless 'Poonsters, still smarting from a humiliating softball defeat earlier in the afternoon, managed a smile or two. In short, a good time...