Word: haplessness
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Peter Talbot made a nice catch in right field in the first inning and a great charging stab of the ball by shortstop Steve Long in late innings saved the no-hitter for Nilson. The Crimson, meanwhile, had little trouble getting hits off the hapless Tufts pitching staff...
Harvard's freshmen overcame a poor start and yet another tough Princeton crew to eke out their victory, clobbering the hapless Elis in the process...
Truffaut's playful misogyny gives the movie a nice cutting edge, but it also unhinges it, quite as thoroughly as the hapless hero (Andre Dussollier) is eventually unhinged by Camille. A bookish, earnest, timid sociologist writing a thesis on criminal women, Dussollier interviews Camille in prison and becomes enraptured by her exploits; his scholarly dispassion buckles as she relates her history of adultery, theft and even-perhaps-murder. He becomes her vicarious paramour, and her champion, determined to prove her innocent of the murder of a lover (Charles Denner). She is, through his strenuous dedication, finally acquitted...
...play. Unsuccessful at portraying Julia's passionate melodramatics, Koski appears to have lost not her decorum and good sense, but her wits. In contrast, the two fathers, played by Jeremiah Riemer and Peter Wirth, are delightfully comfortable in their roles, delivering their lines with spontaneous conviction. As the stupidly hapless doctor to whom Loenard conspires to marry off his adoring nuisance, Robert Stier is nearly perfect...
...very windy, rainy and cold down here today," Brownlee continued, as the hapless sailors floundered in the slimy 45 degree waters of the Charles River...