Word: luckless
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...huge TV audience agree to play along? Ken Kercheval (J.R.'s luckless adversary Cliff Barnes) may have the answer: "The audience wants to know but they love not knowing." In the past few weeks newspapers have spread the latest Dallas trivia across their front pages. Las Vegas bookies have offered daily odds on the culprit (in the final line, Kristin was the favorite). Pundits have made merry speculating on the identity of the gunperson: Columnist Art Buchwald fingered David Brinkley because the scheduling of his NBC Magazine opposite J.R. had driven Brinkley to the bottom of the ratings...
...whole," W.C. Fields asserted as his epitaph, "I'd rather be in Philadelphia." That was easy for Fields to say; he was not a baseball fan. No team in the majors has had as long or luckless a history as the Philadelphia Phillies. In 98 years, the Quaker City also-rans contrived to reach the World Series just three times. In 1915 the Phillies were whipped by the Boston Red Sox, four games to one. The last Philadelphia entry, the 1950 Whiz Kids, fizzled in four straight games to the New York Yankees. Until this year the Phillies managed...
...Coup de Tete" means "hothead" in French and Perrin, Dawaere's shuffling maniac, is certainly a hothead, a clever village idiot who knows, at least what idiocy he has perpetrated. And what idiocy he has not. One frustrating day, when nothing goes right for the luckless Perrin, he decides to leave town, to remove his boyish good looks and soccer talent from the clutches of the petit-bourgeois burghers of Trincamp, a quaint French ville whose occupants lust for a national soccer championship. But before Perrin can escape, the local cops nab him for a rape he didn't commit...
...League's Stanley Cup playoffs in 1975, a scant three years after starting from scratch as an expansion team, hockey insiders dubbed the strong young squad "the team of the future." Fans all over Long Island sat back to await the glories sure to come. But for the luckless New Yorkers, the future was always in the future...
Dartmouth avenged Harvard's loss to Yale, trouncing the Elis by 20 points to capture first place in the tournament. Dartmouth was the predicted favorite, and Yale's second place finish was no surprise, but plucky sixth-seeded Princeton took everyone by surprise, especially the luckless hoopsters...