| 单词 | hapless |
| 例句 | But simple luck is the random birthright of the hapless. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z What the dreamer was experiencing, she experienced, and not as some hapless spectator. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Harper, who worked in the B-block yard, was the main victim by most accounts, but other versions of the incident made him out to be a hapless error-maker. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In consequence, as Smith later crowed, the hapless Mayflower spent several frigid weeks scouting around Cape Cod for a good place to land, during which time many colonists became sick and died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On February 5, 1958, the hapless Vanguard team tried again for orbit and failed, although this time their rocket managed to at least clear the gantry before it blew up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Driving past, my dad used to roll his eyes at the flocks of students haplessly jaywalking across Ellis Avenue, wondering how it was that such smart people had never learned to properly cross a street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the field the wounded flying machine bounced haplessly over the unmown grass for thirty yards. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And oh! where meantime was the hapless owner of this wreck? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Of course Nigro had let him take the test again; I and a couple of others helped him study before he did, because he was a nice guy, hapless but good-natured. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every few seconds some hapless avatar or ship would inadvertently fly or careen into the shield and get vaporized, like a fly hitting a bug zapper. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He put in the second-team offense and defense, but their hapless playing gnawed at him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Groans from the hapless radiators, coupled with the slamming of the wind against their windows, had kept them awake through the dark hours. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He and Jordie stayed late into the night singing songs while Margit played the piano, their big silver dog thumping its tail in hapless rhythm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The hapless rowboat circles the pole in the growing whirlpool and the pitch holding together its copper planks abandons it, spilling into the water like an oil slick. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Sydelle was in pain, but she wanted attention on her own terms, not as a hapless, foolish victim of fate. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Hoskins sat on the seat, looking straight ahead, not at the hapless group standing near the wagon. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z We even applauded them to spite our own hapless teams. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Mathematicians to this day tell of the hapless man who revealed the secret of the irrational to the world. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It took Lee and his men less than three minutes of fighting to overcome the hapless rebellion. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Then Ugwu felt himself lifted up above the trench, helplessly, haplessly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “His mood,” Watson recalled, “was no longer that of a confident master lecturing hapless colonial children.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The old fire was there and the indelible image of Boobie towering over hapless tacklers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined some hapless monster terrorizing a random demigod in Kansas, only to find itself surrounded by several dozen carloads of heavily armoured Romans. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Though Francis could not help dominating the lunchtime conversation, his mood was no longer that of a confident master lecturing hapless colonial children who until then had never experienced a first-rate intellect. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As Copperud wrote, “Shall, then, seems well on the way to extinction, much like the hapless Scot.” split infinitives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If I could honestly invest the hapless actor in this fateful drama with feelings of a loftier cast, my task would be easier and I would feel confident of the outcome. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She awaited my clothes, and I, without a word—unable to refer with propriety to undress—stood hapless and motionless. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z ‘No longer, hapless one, may I behold yon day-star’s sacred eye; but for my fate no tear is shed, no . . . no . . .’ ” “ ‘No friend makes moan.’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lyddie watched the hapless gentlemen heave and shove and sweat, all to no avail. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z When the spring was released, the fist shot out at a hapless puppet. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z With breathtaking accuracy it sprang straight into the air—twice the height of a person—and plucked the hapless creature off its perch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z El Paso Austin was held to six yards in three plays, the hapless Austin running backs suffocating under a pile of five or six raging dogs in black shirts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl never saw it coming, either, and when the hapless bird banged head-on into his ear he gave a startled yelp, tumbling over sideways as if struck by a bullet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, I look down and pity him because I realize that I’m quite possibly looking at the most hapless man on earth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And the hapless boy who represented the traveler was the priggish little scholar they most cordially disliked. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, Indians were not entirely hapless victims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Shaan smiles, looking as if he might be genuinely enjoying watching two hapless Americans become slowly waterlogged. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The captains, hoping to curry favor with Cluny, harangued the hapless runners: “Pick your feet up, you lily-livered scum! Come on, lift that ram properly, you idle devils.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z People fought, shrieked, threw things at one another, and tormented the hapless driver. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The colt spent three years plunging around the track in devil-possessed rages and nurturing a vendetta against the hapless assistant starters assigned to hold his head in the doorless starting gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ladd Devine Company had started drawing up plans for the recreation development about the same time people were losing their water rights and beginning a wholesale exodus from the hapless west side. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But no one suffered more from Owen’s unkindly attentions than the hapless and increasingly tragic Gideon Mantell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The warriors, their duty performed, followed the hapless servants to destruction. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe he was the same hapless dreamer who used to walk into walls while reading. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She liked Diana until the hapless princess colored outside the royal playbook, and then Margaret was done with her for good. Review | Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Lucy's frustration grows as Snoopy remains unimpressed by her hapless attempts to diagnose the source of his anxiety. Peanuts comic will come to life in French TV series 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z In 2018, it’s easy to dismiss the concept of Queer Eye as reductive: five gay men, possessing expertise across the fashion and lifestyle substratum, make over a hapless straight man. As Queer Eye gets a reboot, television enjoys a wealth of gay perspectives 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z As sympathetically played by Stephen Stocking, Gavrilo is a hapless young man with faltering health, a good heart, simple dreams and no luck whatsoever. Rajiv Joseph's 'Archduke' at the Taper is an ambitious mix of history, comedy and tragedy 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The article garnered massive media coverage, made Rosenhan a star and made of psychiatry a hapless buffoon. Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis 2012-08-08T20:52:00Z "Charles is playing three-level chess when the rest of us are playing checkers, despite being portrayed as hapless or befuddled." "His relationship with Harry, that's a film all by itself" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, whose careers were transformed when they co-starred as hapless missionaries in “The Book of Mormon,” will reunite this fall in a comedic two-hander, “Gutenberg! The Musical!” Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells to Reunite in ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Still, it's hard to see him as the hapless victim of cancel culture he's now posturing as. Johnny Depp isn’t being boycotted — he’s a powerful man with options 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z On his show, he’s mostly hapless, apart from the occasional athletic task. TikTok Made Them Famous. Figuring Out What’s Next Is Tough. 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z After all the caveats, and despite the interjection of a hapless longhorn, the train hissed triumphantly into Dire Dawa at 15:27, eight minutes ahead of schedule. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Witt refers to this winsome if somewhat hapless manager, Dell Glover, as “the most fearsome digital pirate of them all.” Review: In ‘How Music Got Free,’ Stephen Witt Details an Industry Sea Change 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “Gallants” is a brisk, riotous comedy in which the female dancers are predators and the hapless men are flies looking for love. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z After a chance mixup, hapless data support job applicant Guy Goma is mistaken for a technology expert and ends up live on TV, struggling through an interview about Apple. The Britain's Got Talent final and five more classic live TV disasters 2013-06-10T09:58:37Z She was officially famous, and now with a famous boyfriend to match: Dolph Lundgren, Swedish and hapless, who was her equal in pure physical splendor. Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But it would be a hapless actor who couldn’t respond to Ms. Taylor’s captivating presence here. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z Cool, fast, precise and merciless, the Bronx rapper Ice Spice dispatches a hapless suitor by designating him as a new slang word: “munch.” Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Previous seasons present Greg as the hapless dolt who acts as the idiot's edition of a Greek chorus. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Jonathan Groff, now starring as a hapless flower shop clerk in an Off Broadway revival of “Little Shop of Horrors,” has a tiny confession to make. Jonathan Groff Is a Seymour at Heart 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z At the beginning, the hot blonde/brawny alpha male/hapless stoner combination seems as much the beginnings of a promising episode of Scooby Doo as it does the framework for a great thriller. Spoiler Alert: Why Everyone Is Talking About The Cabin in the Woods 2012-04-16T10:45:53Z Her most “adorable” moments, though, are not the hapless ones. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s horrible to see the Met look this hapless. At the Met Museum, an Abstract Show That Falls Short of Epic 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z As the hapless Mike, Mr. Ryness exudes a touching, sheepish sense of befuddled inadequacy. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z People streamed into the Foo Fighters show holding phones or cards in the air, speeding by hapless security guards. Live Music Is Back! (Live Music Is Back?) 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z Ed considers the noise of the hospital: “The hall is full of hapless patients, their voices mostly guttural.” Virginia Reeves’s New Novel Explores What It Feels Like When the Mind Breaks 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z This was taken as a swipe at the childless Mrs May, and the hapless Mrs Leadsom was soon out of the race. War of words 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Sandler haplessly tries to buy feminine product for his oldest daughter while Barrymore is gamely looking to replace her son's girlie mag centerfold she inadvertently destroyed to ensure his privacy and trust. 'Blended' continues a love-hate relationship with Adam Sandler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Qiu has always played the clown, shuffling from scene to scene, a hapless pauper harassed by need and political fashion. ‘A New Old Play’ Review: Even the Clown Show Must Go On 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z With a long face and a lean frame that in later years turned gaunt, Mr. Stanton could look hapless, but also vaguely sinister, deflated or as wily as a hungry coyote. Harry Dean Stanton: Fully Inhabiting Scenes, Not Stealing Them 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The sequence with the giant bloated Jabba the Hut is a not-even-concealed Orientalist harem fantasy, complete with desert, chuckling dissipated bloated pasha and hapless princess decked out in fetishware and chains. The 'slave Leia' controversy is about more than objectification 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In the series, Hanks plays a familiar morally upright, sympathetic and occasionally hapless police officer named Gus Grimly. Colin Hanks hopes to finally break Mr. Nice Guy mold with 'Fargo' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The hapless crew of "Sanctum" isn't so lucky — or maybe they are, as many of the actors get to exit the movie early. 'Sanctum': Shot in a cave of bad screenwriting 2011-02-03T04:42:18Z “Nobody tells you anything,” reports the hapless narrator from the year 2613, “No instruction sheet, no welcome wagon.” Divining darkness at the western edge 2013-04-10T18:13:54Z It’s a serious play with abundant sarcastic humor, in part because Matt in wooing mode styles himself as a hapless clown. Review | Theater J, still roaming across D.C., revives ‘Talley’s Folly’ 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z But they do have one thing in common: the portrayal of hapless, pathetic single women as the victims of predatory online catfishing. The pathetic plight of TV's catfished women 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z In “Little Yeses, Little Nos,” the hapless Harry Watroba struggles to learn a fundamental lesson: How to pay attention to the life and world around him. Review | John Crowley continues an uncharacteristically prolific period with the singular ‘And Go Like This’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Created and performed by improvisers who met at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, “Mission to Zyxx” follows hapless ambassadors who alternate between working for and rebelling against the galaxy’s overlords. Podcasts Worth a Listen: ‘Fiasco,’ ‘Unwell,’ ‘In Those Genes’ 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z In Madrid, a group of hapless would-be criminals — dressed as a silver Christ, a soldier, Minnie Mouse, the Invisible Man and SpongeBob SquarePants — steals gold from a pawnshop. ‘Witching & Bitching,’ a Spanish Horror Comedy 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z This is a more cerebral novel than Mr Ferris’s previous works, but the hapless Paul keeps it grounded. Looking for a place called hope 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z The comedy, in which Hollander starred as a hapless inner city vicar, will return in late 2011 with Bain on board as the show's new script editor. BBC2's Rev reborn for second series 2011-04-04T13:34:28Z He and Kevin Brown, as the character Dot Com, appear as the two-man entourage for a hapless comedian played by Tracy Morgan on the "30 Rock" sitcom. '30 Rock' actor speaks up for organ donation 2010-08-04T19:33:00Z It’s everything about the Pumpkins classic overabundance of studio time turned up to eleven, then digitized and released onto a hapless public. Smashing Pumpkins’ The Aeroplane Flies High Reissue is Compelling and Excessive 2013-07-25T14:47:40Z The hapless narrator of “Chicken Cordon Blues” is a starving carnivore restricted to a punishing diet of alfalfa sprouts, sunflower seeds and granola who envies a meat-eating dog he sees in the street. Music Review: Elaine St. George Sings Songs by Steve Goodman 2014-03-28T20:47:37Z He seems addled and hapless, and may be cognitively challenged, but he’s also mulish, incoherent, exasperating and cunning. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z That’s because his hero is busy fretting about his own hapless misbehavior and unconsummated good intentions, his health, his marriage, his mistress. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z Then, “Maron” put him on display in a TV version of his life as a hapless comic with a podcast, neuroses, issues with women and a penchant for getting himself into jams. On TV and podcasts, Maron finds laughs and insight Massive property damage ensues until us hapless Earthlings are pressed to the brink of doom. 'Battleship' stays afloat in a sea of noise 2012-05-16T19:44:04Z As for Mitchell, his hapless and outraged debate on Thatcher's legacy was the highlight of the show. Is it third time lucky for 10 O'Clock Live? 2013-04-25T10:05:00Z Another of his banquets in Mexico City was raided by the army – but too late, finding only four hapless members of the band paid to entertain Guzmán, who were arrested for possession of firearms. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Each time we slammed into each other, hapless as slapstick Stooges, we were reduced to fits of hysterical laughter — laughter masking fear and frustration. Next Stop: Off Nicaragua, a Quieter Caribbean 2012-11-07T17:48:36Z Scott Thomas, dolled up in a blond hairdo and slinky clothes, has wicked fun with her role, spitting obscenities at her son, his girlfriend and a hapless hotel clerk. Only God Forgives: A Red Light for Ryan Gosling 2013-05-22T18:15:59Z They find trouble and, here’s hoping, their bliss amid oceans of booze and maybe drugs, sometimes in the company of men, who are alternately helpful or hapless. Review: In ‘Girls Trip,’ Women Giddily Under the Influence 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z In their hapless ploy to overturn a free and fair election, Donald Trump’s lawyers called themselves an “elite strike force team.” Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The coroner is mischievous and brimming with wit and sarcasm, most of it directed toward hapless and barely competent Communist apparatchiks. Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach 2010-09-06T18:23:00Z His hapless interactions with United States customs officers would be unamusing in any case, but the timing — with border entry in the news — doesn’t help. Review: In ‘You’re Killing Me Susana,’ Fidelity Is Up for Debate 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He chases real-estate deals; he gins up a hapless business selling ad space on takeout containers; he fantasizes about appearing on “Shark Tank.” Waking Up From the American Dream 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Frederic and his hapless entourage register this anticlimactic mood in word and deed. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Would Teddy, the hapless “good guy” host played by James Marsden, finally find a way to save the day? How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Chang’s specialty is a hapless, wronged look, while Ms. Nordman likes the anxious smile of a flight attendant in training. Dance Review: Where an Audience Becomes the Star 2011-05-20T23:30:06Z His play “Jihad,” from 2014, was about three hapless Belgian Muslims who travel to Syria but eventually understand that their attempt at holy war is a grave mistake. His Idea for Fighting Terrorism? Funny Plays 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Tough enough to live where they do, these men also long, however haplessly, for connection. Reviews: New Books From Thomas McGuane, Hanif Kureishi and More 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In 2018, Rose brought out a second book, the memoir “Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else,” which recounts his misadventures as a hapless visiting lecturer at a university in an unnamed Central European city. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Ulbricht was all the more impressive against the two hapless couples of “Midsummer,” whose confused strife did not inspire Balanchine’s richest choreographic inventions. 2010-01-08T03:48:00Z The heist-comedy about a hapless band of robbers was originally scheduled to be released last year, but found itself entangled in Relativity Media’s bankruptcy proceedings. Box Office: ‘Miss Peregrine’ tops with $28.5 million, ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ ‘Masterminds’ bomb 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z As the hapless hero who goes to work in a remote country house owned by Mr Knott, McGovern reminded us that Beckett was, among many other things, one of the great Irish humorists. Dublin theatre festival takes the recession seriously 2010-10-11T15:44:00Z Its plot – never remotely as preposterous as the Queen show We Will Rock You – hangs around Johnny, Will and Tunny, three hapless teenage rebels desperate for a cause in post-9/11 small-town America. American Idiot – review 2012-10-11T11:47:04Z "The Interview," starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, follows two hapless journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. U.S. theater chains delay Sony's 'The Interview' after threats 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In the 1813 Regency story, Darcy is a wealthy young man, in charge of a large estate, who tags along with his friend, the hapless Charles Bingley, and meets Elizabeth at a ball. Move over, Colin Firth – our favorite new Darcy is on "Fire Island" 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z “Words were never my strongest suit,” says the hapless deputy sheriff of “The Mortician Confesses.” Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The resistance was mostly too hapless, too ragtag. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Here the replica gun is replaced with the Wii's pointer, which brings down hapless foul with a squeeze of the trigger. Pheasants Forever - review 2011-08-13T23:05:28Z Viewers have become especially fond of your co-stars Matthew Macfadyen, who plays Shiv’s hapless husband, Tom, and Nicholas Braun, who plays gangly Cousin Greg. Can ‘Succession’ Succeed Again? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In today's scene, Norman Wisdom's influence is felt most keenly in the performances of Lee Evans, who disclaims any resemblance, but whose hapless dork persona and goofy physicality strongly recall Wisdom's signature style. Wisdom's longevity was incredible. He even made Barry Cryer seem young 2010-10-04T23:14:00Z The unnamed narrator is a young doctor wrenched from a comfortable life in Lisbon and forced to spend 27 months on the front lines treating his hapless fellow soldiers. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z Getman’s Lee is an exultant, swaggering predator with a hapless side: Attempting to draft a screenplay treatment, he gets himself tangled up in typewriter ribbon. Two plays deal with betrayal with mixed results 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Historian Rick Altman has found that smaller cinemas may have dispensed with the pianist altogether: a cost-cutting measure that may have been a mercy if the alternative was a hapless Harpo. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z He has the smarm but not the charm of a compulsive grifter, even a hapless one. ‘The Nest’ Review: New Home, Old Wounds 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z "Who sees a £10 note on the floor and doesn't pick it up?" asks Miller's hapless MP, before the final curtain falls. MPs duck out of The Duck House 2013-12-11T10:59:23Z The playwright’s hapless executives may not qualify for a raise, but his “Enterprise” merits a promotion. Review: Comically Currying the Boss’s Favor in ‘Enterprise’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Instead of K, our hapless protagonist is the Investigator. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z I said in a hapless attempt at an Albanian accent in what I later discovered was a largely Greek-speaking region. Frugal Traveler: On the Albanian Riviera, a Frugal Paradise 2011-06-29T15:26:28Z And learning of Antony's marriage to Octavia, she first pulls a stiletto from her garter and then brandishes a gun at the hapless messenger and her terrified followers. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z The jokes that the universe plays on hapless human creatures may be cruel, but they’re also funny, and the Coens are skilled and wily metaphysical pranksters. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z There were lines like “Get a load of this!” or “Whoever reported shots out here, they weren’t kiddin’!” from the hapless sheriff’s deputies who came to check out Quinn’s lake house. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 9: Why Is Everyone Stating the Obvious? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In person Mr. Braff is ingratiating, if not endearingly hapless, like J. D. in “Scrubs,” or soulfully morose, like Andrew Largeman, his character in “Garden State.” Zach Braff in Paul Weitz?s ?Trust? at Second Stage 2010-07-29T21:38:00Z Her energy levels are incredible, which makes you fear for the behind of the hapless technician who took so long to get the party started. Pink 2010-06-13T21:46:00Z Other pluses: Leigh Brackett’s script and, in a master stroke of counterintuitive casting, Elliott Gould as a rumpled, hapless yet noble Philip Marlowe, trying to clear a friend’s name amid a labyrinth of moral compromise. In ‘The Long Goodbye,’ Altman Dissects Los Angeles 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The tenant is the hapless Mint, whose legs are paralyzed. Review: Tennessee Williams’s Late-Career Curiosities 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Reena was then beaten again, by a relatively privileged young terror named Kelly and a hapless, homeless boy named Warren. Rebecca Godfrey, Who Found Humanity in Teenage Violence, Dies at 54 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Sticky traps on tree trunks are smothered in dozens, hundreds of hapless lanternfly nymphs. Perspective | ‘This is going to be a bad one’: A new pest is causing quarantines in Va. and Pa. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z On TV, “The Greatest American Hero” premiered in 1981, featuring a hapless high school teacher who stumbles into superpowers via alien intervention. ‘Watchmen’ Is Coming. (Actually, It Never Left.) 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z He made a typically hapless appearance in 24 Hour Party People. A call for help for Vini Reilly 2013-01-04T17:14:21Z And over on Twitter, the white nationalists are Jew-baiting the hapless Bill Kristol because he prefers the Deep State to the Trump State. A professor’s lesson: “American democracy is now confronting an abyss” 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She performed with a proprietary air, flashing her legs at every opportunity, when she wasn’t wrapping them around her prey, the hapless corporal Don José. Music Review: ‘Carmen,’ With Anita Rachvelishvili, at the Met 2012-09-30T21:49:45Z The CIA recruits the hapless duo to assassinate Kim by asking Skylark to discreetly poison him with ricin administered through a handshake. Sony spoof 'The Interview' makes North Korea butt of the joke 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z What kind of artist — acclaimed by the world but egotistical and perhaps secretly hapless — will the protagonist be? ‘Hotel by the River’ Review: A Poet Makes Amends, Fumblingly 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Not even a Southeast Asian action video engages the interest of the hapless lad. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Watching hapless actors stumble, tumble and rumble through the world’s worst rendition of “Christmas Carol” may be cruel fun. Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z This summer, he made fun of hapless political candidates, playing the underdog candidate obsessed with pugs who challenges incumbent congressman Will Farrell. You Can Take Your Oscar and...: Joaquin Phoenix and 8 Other Tinseltown Trash-Talkers 2012-10-19T14:00:00Z Trump has taken down or damaged many people with lies and innuendos, ranging from Obama and HRC and Republican opponents, to reporters, a hapless ex-beauty queen, and women accusing him of sexual improprieties. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Then they should own the decision, rather than renouncing it like some hapless prisoner at a political show trial. Perspective | Does Linda Fairstein deserve a literary honor? Critics say her past as a prosecutor sullies her art. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Quite what this actor will do by way of a follow-up is anyone’s guess, but let’s hope he treads more carefully than his hapless character. Theater: Stars May Be Center Stage in London, but Others Shine 2011-07-26T13:00:06Z The game programmers had thus switched off the hostility driven by the robot’s artificial intelligence, allowing the player to walk past the hapless robot or shoot it. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z How deep does this instructive parallel run between a 21st-century president and the hapless villain of a pop-culture classic made 43 years ago? Disaster president: Why is Trump acting like the mayor from Jaws? 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z It was, King admits, as if the world had caught up with Valerie and her hapless ambitions. Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the best comedy actress Emmy for the second year in a row for her role as hapless U.S. 'Breaking Bad' finally makes good with best drama Emmy 2013-09-25T01:11:09Z We also knew that there is still something we “like” about this powerful figure’s hapless vacuity from Sofia Coppola’s pop-flavored 2006 film, though David Adjmi’s drama is significantly darker as it chronicles history’s grim march. A mod ‘Marie’ in bikini and wigs at Woolly Little of that coded language finds its way into the book, even during intense scenarios with her best friends and sometime boyfriend, a hapless fellow in low-slung baggy jeans. Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende – review 2013-05-30T07:01:01Z From the first scene, we see the hapless, hopeless Edwards, determined to make a sporting success of himself but destined to trip up over his laces at every finishing line. Eddie the Eagle: ‘I was probably closer to the ostrich’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Much of The Scheme plays as a laughable farce – the hapless FBI investigation stages one meeting on a yacht with popped bottles of champagne, another in an extravagant Vegas casino suite. The Scheme: the crazy untold story of bribery, business and basketball 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s spoken by a hapless former trucker named Eddie, whose unmooring grief for his dead wife has him wanting to believe she’s texting him from the Great Beyond. Martyna Majok on Hoping for Magic, and Wishing for Ghosts 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Yet while the book's claustrophobic first-person narration is filled with ambiguities – is Changez an inspiring lecturer or terrorist, is he talking to a CIA agent or a hapless tourist? – the film is more straightforward. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z Mussolini almost disappears as his mistress takes over the narrative, leading to a hapless trip to the asylum and a custody battle she can't win. 'Vincere' follows Mussolini's charismatic impact on World War II through tragic lover 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z For the hapless Eisenhower-era protagonist of “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” and for the studly Jacob Black in the “Twilight” movies, sprouting fur, fangs and claws was a metaphor for uncontrollable adolescent male rage. Review: In ‘When Animals Dream’ a Teenager’s Secret Is a Revelation Even to Her 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The issue is certainly on Elizabeth’s mind when, in the present day, she finds herself threatening Derek, a hapless warehouse employee, with a crowbar. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: It’s All About Work/Life Balance 2014-03-13T03:00:03Z The experiences of her character in “Love After Love” — her sexual explorations, her sometimes hapless dating encounters and adult sons — dovetail somewhat with her own. Andie MacDowell, Still Worth It 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Well, all except for hapless Antonio, who opted against chipping into the pool. New US TV shows we're excited about 2013-05-16T11:11:00Z Newark's the hapless Nets but also Philip Roth. The endlessly bizarre duality of New Jersey 2011-08-04T18:50:00Z An immaculate woman, all but blinded by the potted plant she is carrying, blunders haplessly through a platter of macaroons that has been left on the floor. Baz Luhrmann on The Great Gatsby: 'Fitzgerald was a clown, just like I am' 2013-05-16T18:30:01Z “Metamorphoses” also inspired an intriguing pair of panels devoted to the hapless drunkard Silenus and another about Prometheus and the creation of man. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z You often play characters that are either hapless or erudite, and in "Guest Artist" you do both. Jeff Daniels on theater vs. film and the man who never forgave him for making "Dumb & Dumber" 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Before the shooting, Conway was considered one of the best rappers in Buffalo, a city more known for its hapless professional football team and proximity to Niagara Falls than as a hip-hop hotbed. Conway the Machine’s new album caps Griselda’s rise to prominence as one of rap’s essential crews 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z From Paris to Genoa to Rome, we're treated to stories of Twain's hapless fellow travellers, and of irritating tour guides whose sameness blurs them into one entity called "Ferguson". Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z The National Geographic crews don’t have any threats to show for their four-month embedment, however, beyond a hapless bicycle delivery man who tries to breach the perimeter of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting. | 'Counterterror NYC': A New View of New York Constantly on Guard 2011-01-28T17:07:42Z The shake has introduced many younger customers to Grimace, a character with a perpetually cheerful, or hapless, expression. In a TikTok Trend, Grisly Scenes of Purple Milkshake Horror 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z I had mixed feelings last June when the BBC unveiled its new sitcom Rev, about a hapless inner city vicar called Adam Smallbone. Rev: preaching to the converted 2011-04-05T10:58:25Z His new one is a meandering but often entertaining fairy tale, in which a hapless man called Lucy Minor goes to work for the major-domo of a castle. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Edge of Tomorrow is also different in casting Cruise not as his usual hyper-athletic grinner, but as a hapless and initially unlikable dork. Edge of Tomorrow review – Tom Cruise in born again blockbuster 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z He plays Tim, a hapless drug dealer whom the girls blackmail into becoming a hitman. Comedy-thriller 'Thoroughbreds' wows critics 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z I laughed my head off at these hapless Russians. ‘Dying for It,’ Adapted From a Banned Soviet-Era Satire 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He's confused and contemplating just how he got there as some hapless dupe is being doused and set afire. 'A Dame to Kill For' is a sinful waste of a sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Even when “She Don’t Use Jelly” became a hit in the early 1990s, the Lips seemed more like hapless one-hit wonders than lifers. Wayne Coyne, mad scientist: “If the Flaming Lips make a wrong move, so what?” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z But the book’s most egregious logical whopper is its attempt to justify the author’s craving for an expensive Birkin bag in the name of a hapless Goodall chimp named Mike. Review: ‘Primates of Park Avenue,’ Making Fun of the Rich 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z More specifically, it was somewhere along the 57 Freeway that the idea for this hapless numbers-cruncher hit Robert Weide, show creator, writer and director. 'Mr. Sloane,' a dark British comedy with Southland roots, comes to KCET 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z This invites extreme vengeance, with the hapless Joshua drawn in, bringing with him his lower-middle-class girlfriend and her bewildered parents. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:24Z At times, Rebecca, who managed the bar in the show, appeared to be a hapless and gold-digging mess. Kirstie Alley, Emmy-Winning ‘Cheers’ Actress, Dies at 71 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Florence's songs about gouging out enemy eyes and burying boyfriends clearly made an impression on La Grange, who has a track, Vampire Smile, about getting drunk and biting some hapless fellow's neck. New band of the day ? No 1,062: Kyla La Grange 2011-07-14T16:19:48Z It would be easy to say that it has nothing to do with us, but like the hapless detectives, we discover that the trail leads straight back to where it began. Best theatre of 2012, No 4: Three Kingdoms, Lyric Hammersmith 2012-12-18T17:17:11Z “What are the odds?” is a question that reverberates darkly throughout this play, as one calamity after another befalls its hapless, good-willed, ill-starred characters. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z Richard, a somewhat hapless Scot, has been transplanted in the U.K.’s capital, where he discovers a parallel world underneath the city called London Below. The Essential Neil Gaiman 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Emma Thompson, as the hapless, put-upon prime minister — who bears more than a slight resemblance to Theresa May — adds some welcome dryness to an otherwise very broad movie. Review: Rowan Atkinson Returns in ‘Johnny English Strikes Again’ 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Steinbeck also describes what happens to those whom the societal phalanx rolls over, like the two hapless wanderers Lennie and George in the 1937 novella “Of Mice and Men.” Review | John Steinbeck and biographer William Souder make a perfect pair 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z A sequel for the hapless dudes, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, followed in 1991. Alex Winter: 'I had extreme PTSD for many, many years. That will wreak havoc' 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z These turned the story of the band into a surreal sitcom, casting them as a hapless odd couple – Spinal Tap meets Men Behaving Badly. Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey: halves of the Dot 2013-05-15T17:30:01Z McConaughey’s self-effacing slacker-cool attitude, which lets him casually drop a few thousand on the hapless Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl, has made him an ideal masculine movie hero for our anxious moment. Review | Matthew McConaughey is ‘alright, alright, alright’ — and thinks you will be too 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Dormie, De Castro speculated, may have pounced on the hapless Sunbeam when she was roaming the vacant lot to eat grass. Paw and order: Dormie, the dog who went on trial for cat murder 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z May they help other hapless parents along their ways. Personal Journeys: Mother and Sons, on the Same Track 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z José, rather stiffly acted by Yonghoon Lee, seemed perhaps more hapless than he needed to be at first, though he rose to striking outbursts vocally. Music Review: ‘Carmen,’ With Anita Rachvelishvili, at the Met 2012-09-30T21:49:45Z It was populated by grubby academics busting ghosts, a hapless archaeologist failing to get hold of mystic idols, and a skateboarding kid who just wanted to get back to the future. Why are we hooked on films about mass destruction? 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Jordan Berman, the hapless but lovable protagonist of Joshua Harmon’s entirely delightful new play, “Significant Other,” seems to see tiers of tulle, sprays of baby’s breath and ill-fitting bridesmaids’ gowns wherever he looks. Review: In ‘Significant Other,’ a Young Man Pines as His Pals Pair Off 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z As we know from many hapless homegrown attempts, making Shakespeare flow in a stylistically coherent production is not easy. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z As it turns out, our hapless single dad might have feigned ignorance because he has already been to hell and back, an experience he recounts in a convoluted flashback involving Charles Manson and Lucifer. Review: The Devil Wears Pleather but Can’t Save ‘Christmas in Hell’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The "directly autobiographical" Quigleys stories follow the everyday adventures of a very normal, slightly hapless family. Simon Mason: Seriously funny 2011-07-29T14:30:42Z DIY web series, “It Could Be Worse,” about a struggling and somewhat hapless actor played by Mr. Taylor, seems to be doing better in its career than the fictional character at its center. ‘It Could Be Worse’ Comedy Series Moves to Hulu 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Love of the House or love of the person: which is raging through Arya’s mind as she perforates that hapless Frey soldier next to his campfire? Game of Thrones Watch: Blood Is Thicker 2013-06-10T04:04:31Z In its pretty, almost hapless way, the book depicts a curious warp in a great historical arc. Noticed: What Would Che Say? 2011-07-27T18:59:05Z That, too, is the story of a young man, "the hapless product of a broken home, who's ultimately able to take control of destiny and engineer his errant father's redemption". A quarter of a century for Back in the Future 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z Finally, there are the note-perfect walk-ons — hapless people who cross paths with the unthinkable while getting coffee or answering the door. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z More recently, he revived the hapless character in a series of spoof videos on YouTube inviting viewers to learn the guitar with the former manager of Slough paper company Wernham Hogg. Gervais to make David Brent movie 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The early days of Covid-19 — “the Chinese virus,” as our hapless, xenophobic president has called it — dovetailed neatly with one of Trump’s favorite tropes, a fear of immigrants and foreigners. What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Eric haplessly waved goodbye to me through the crowd and dashed off to his evening performance of “Much Ado.” Learning 'Lear': Torn Between Soccer and Shakespeare 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z “They found me on a sun-gilded afternoon, cracked like a hapless egg, with the secret substance of me obscenely oozing into the light.” Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z He sometimes tried to rally the hapless troops by reciting stirring passages from Shakespeare. D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Over and over, we see Whipple’s spymasters left hapless and humiliated by Beltway politics and bureaucratic maneuvering. One of the Most Perilous Jobs in Government 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z She tells these hapless men how to act, how to dress, what kind of date to plan. The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z If a character’s associates carry the Runyonesque nicknames “Choppers” and “Dutch,” the reader understands mob many pages and sunken dreams before the hapless target. Review | Jenna Blum’s ‘The Lost Family’ is lost in needless detail 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z He plays Todd Margaret, the Shrek-faced, improbably hapless American who finds himself in London after being catastrophically over-promoted to head up the UK division of a slightly radioactive energy drink called Thunder Muscle. TV streaming: six of the best shows 2013-02-16T16:00:00Z Large media companies lobby states and nations for these subsidies, then have then compete to "earn" film productions, because the studios can lay off literally billions of dollars in production costs on hapless taxpayers. 2009-12-03T18:01:00Z The green flashy lights, Halloween ghosts and hapless doppelgangers were plain naff. Semiramide ? review 2011-08-29T17:30:00Z “So what’s the point of me?,” one hapless water-baby inquires when his boss at the swimming pool tells him a computer runs everything. ‘Sink or Swim’ Review: Pool Boys 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z David Brent, perhaps the most hapless authority figure ever to have found his way onto the small screen, check and check. Six to watch: workplace comedies 2011-08-04T14:08:03Z It’s a fairly restrained, somber example of its type, especially given that what the hapless Americans find amid the foliage is a chupacabra. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z Instead, he was a hapless father, and a happy one. Review: ‘Growing Up Hip Hop’ Shares the Perks and Perils of Progeny 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z In contrast to the hapless men, Miss Caroline never loses her cool and steadfastly dispatches the lurching attackers. ‘Little Monsters’ Review: Zombies Hunger Down Under 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In Mr. Carlson’s breezy retelling, these hapless efforts to recapture the company’s former glory amount to almost comic exercises in futility. ‘Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!’ by Nicholas Carlson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The satirical show-within-a-show about the inside workings of a fictional television sketch series saw Tina Fey's hapless writer Liz Lemon try to round up her unruly cast for a last hurrah. "30 Rock" closes its doors with a sentimental farewell 2013-02-01T02:23:26Z The good news is that this portrait of two old friends and their hapless negotiations with their erotic and professional lives, and with each other, bristles with Mr. Feiffer’s inimitable wit. Review: ‘Bernard and Huey’ Has Wit and Personality. Stale Jokes, Too. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z He might be amused by the hapless electoral efforts of Mr. Brooke, the blustering if well-meaning local landowner, who is pelted with eggs on his first appearance at the hustings, which is also his last. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z If a time comes when incompetent or hapless women are humorously depicted as often as their male equivalents, then the distorting fairground mirror of comedy might at last be reflecting a just world. Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z Whatever her age, Pollard was not a hapless innocent. A Predatory Congressman, His Jilted Lover and a Gilded Age Lawsuit That Foreshadowed #MeToo 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Newcomers will laugh at the little bun haplessly trying to cover the enormous tenderloin, pounded into the irregular shapes that often resemble Eastern European nations. Frugal Traveler: Eating in Iowa: Farm-Fresh, Fried and Frugal 2013-08-14T22:43:34Z Bamford is a much kinder, gentler figure than Jerri—for all her mental illness, she’s a grownup who wants to be happy and good and successful—but she shares some of that same hapless intensity. Maria Bamford’s Melancholic, Hallucinogenic, and Very Funny “Lady Dynamite” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Photograph: Des Willie/BBC Traditionally, television has either dressed them up inWith straw hats and used them as the butt of jokes, or portrayed them as hapless victims in Agatha Christie adaptations. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z He was also known for his brief but memorable turn in the series finale of “Seinfeld” in 1998 as the hapless victim of a carjacking. John Pinette, a Stand-Up Comic, Dies at 50 2014-04-08T01:00:21Z We see them in this studio this week, rerecording their early single “Simone” and boring the hapless junior A&R man Clark out of his mind. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 3: Rock Star Karaoke 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The Little Orchestra Society is now recreating part of that hapless hero’s experience in “An L.O.S. Halloween Bash: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice!” 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z I am hapless when it comes to dressing myself. Glenn O’Brien’s Friends Remember a ‘Successful Maniac’ 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Like Eddie and his hapless pals, the characters in Sam Pink’s stories exist on the fringes of American culture and are barely hanging on there. Review | Sam Pink’s ‘Ice Cream Man’ explores life on the fringes 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z A hapless attempt to interact with a crush unfolds in the midst of a school shooting drill. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Nicholas II, in Mr. Lieven’s telling, is also more complex and sympathetic than the hapless monarch of Western lore. Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z In the meantime we sit in the dark, like the hapless creatures in Animal Farm, looking from man to zombie and struggling to tell just which one is which. Film review: The Horde 2010-09-16T21:55:00Z This exuberant comic novel — involving explosions, secret agents, religious fanatics and a hapless narrator dragged around Europe by his long-lost aunt — is also a sly theological exploration of fate and predestination. New & Noteworthy, From Black Utopias to a ‘Little Women’ Tribute 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z At its lesser moments, it’s hapless, like a poorly lighted mumblecore movie. Books of The Times: ‘Taipei,’ by Tao Lin 2013-06-04T12:00:01Z Behold: “A Children’s Bible” is ready to rain down God’s wrath on these hapless families. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Watching the play-within-a-play’s troupe of amateur actors trying to perform a murder mystery is like watching a roomful of hapless carpenters hammering their own thumbs, then watching the cabinets crash on their heads. Review | ‘Play That Goes Wrong’ breaks a leg (plus a few noses, noggins and funny bones) 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Doesn’t sound all that revolutionary, but the way the series played out, Samantha couldn’t resist using her magic to fix things for her hapless husband and of course, hilarity ensues. 21 TV Shows That Revolutionized Female Sexuality 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z As anxieties over nuclear testing and the effects of radiation swept postwar America, Mr. Gordon embarked on a low-budget filmmaking odyssey that turned mutated monsters loose on the hapless world. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Whatever visions of chaos your imagination summons, the odds are that this show’s artfully hapless team will exceed them. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The staging hides a certain amount of its technology until Winston, Orwell’s hapless protagonist, discovers the ugly truth. How to design a dystopian play 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z His hapless, bored and obsessive characters, natural liars and fantasists all, may require the insularity of a small, isolated, self-mythologizing world to flourish and self-destruct credibly. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z Wong Ping’s animations give us a glimpse into a strange inner world — a world of hapless and depraved characters caught in a sequence of surreal plot twists. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z But Tom Wambsgans — mercurial yet sensitive, diabolical yet almost constantly hapless — stood out from the beginning. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z As Cora is told by Teddy Van Der Leyden, her hapless American suitor, “The whole of America knows you are going to Europe, to find a suitable consort for the Cash millions.” Books of The Times: Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse 2011-06-26T21:00:06Z The moment where the rock creature explains the stakes to the gang is one of those classic "Futurama" moments that follows dire exposition with a Bob Hope-style coward-dolt one-liner by the hapless hero, Fry. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z Paul Dano, in a small role as the hero’s hapless friend — sort of an Elisha Cook, Jr., to Joe’s Humphrey Bogart — is a Jell-O blob of neuroses, wildly agitated and instantly disposable. Looper: (500) Days of The Terminator 2012-09-27T12:00:49Z Fast forward to today and band leader Steve "Lips" Kudlow is driving a catering truck and still hustling gigs for his hapless crew. The Secrets of Westminster Abbey: Time Team 2010-06-28T05:45:00Z In a string of jabs, the hapless melon is trodden on as “garbage fruit,” cantaloupe’s “dumb friend.” This No-Bake Cheesecake Is Devastatingly Good 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z This is followed by a brief, enigmatic interlude of a charming donkey wandering in a derelict house where the dog tears at a small, dead animal, presumably our hapless hare. ‘I Was at Home, but …’ Review: In Grief, What Dreams May Come 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “Never mind aloe vera, it sounds like it’s goodbye Sarah,” he told one hapless dolt on Wednesday, looking for all the world like a fire-damaged Zoltar Speaks machine that just received some especially bad news. It's time for The Apprentice to clear its desk and go 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z He wades into touchy territory — the Holocaust, #MeToo, his mother’s sex life — but the aim here is not to tell it like it is but to find obstacles for his hapless protagonist to navigate. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Slash was the first magazine to publish Gary Panter’s now legendary comic strip about a hapless punk everyman named “Jimbo.” A number of these are printed on bright yellow paper in the book. Partying with the Germs and drinking with X: A new book about Slash magazine captures L.A.'s early punk scene 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z He made himself laugh recalling the scene from “Broadway Danny Rose” in which a group of comics sat at Carnegie Deli trading stories about Woody Allen’s hapless talent agent. Jonathan Demme: The mentor, the maestro, the model 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Compared with the reality show trope of hapless youth struggling with modest setbacks, it's a refreshing look at how well twentysomethings muck in when livelihoods depend on it. TV highlights 11/01/2013 2013-01-11T13:08:15Z But he is best known for his role on “Gilligan’s Island” in which he played a professor who used his scientific knowledge to deal with the various perils the hapless castaways faced. Russell Johnson of ‘Gilligan’s Island’ dies on Bainbridge 2014-01-16T21:08:19Z More than 900 died, most of them hapless young Argentine soldiers. ‘Little Black Lies’ by Sharon Bolton 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z He plays Tim, a hapless drug dealer whom the girls blackmail into becoming a hitman. Comedy-thriller 'Thoroughbreds' wows critics 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The Young Woman, whose appropriately generic name is Helen Jones, faces an even greater tyranny of rules and limitations than O’Neill’s and Rice’s hapless men. Theater Review: ‘Machinal’ Examines a Wife Driven to Kill 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z One hapless suitor kills himself, another demonstrates his adoration by pushing a beloved racing car off a cliff. How ‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’ Still Casts a Spell 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The show tries to put her actions in a context of rural economic malaise and male entitlement, but it mostly condescends to her, and Lyle comes off as a hapless bumpkin. Review: A Sensational Prison Escape, Without the Sensation 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The new show believes this problem can be solved by putting a woman in the role of a hapless ex. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z On other days pedestrians searched haplessly for the gate’s entrance. New York Playgrounds I Have Known 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Tirelessly upbeat Lydia and hapless Jeff, as depressed as his town, are an opposites-attract couple whose feints and parries seem to come with a laugh track. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z My husband is a hapless victim of my sex writing career. “It felt like the entire world was coming out of my d*ck”: For purveyors of “guybrators,” fleshlights, and other male masturbators, business is booming 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z There was a death in the Season 2 finale of “Better Call Saul,” an unceremonious shot to the head that felled a hapless truck driver employed by the cartel. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Finale: The Ultimate Betrayal 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Here, Willard played a hapless character who has opened a store that sells nothing but Scotch tape — in every size and variety, but still, only Scotch tape. Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z JR This word-of-mouth hit about four hapless teens has proved so addictive it's not uncommon for first-time viewers to munch through an entire run in one sitting. TV highlights Boxing Day 2010-12-20T03:05:00Z In these dismal days of climate change, imperial decline, endless war, and in my city, a hapless football team, I seem to be experiencing a strange and unaccustomed emotion: hope. No victory left behind: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton changed how people talk about sex, race and class 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z He punishes his hapless victims not so much for their iniquities as because their suffering is so satisfyingly beautiful. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z If they racked up big debts, the Chinese bosses could abandon the hapless gambling mule and simply compensate his relatives. Bungle In The Jungle 2011-07-27T22:00:00Z Intimacy between performers and their hapless audience members creates an interesting frisson. Stage rage: when standups heckle back 2012-12-31T10:38:42Z A tongue-in-cheek homage to vaudeville, entertainment that was an American staple from the late 19th century through about 1930, “Moxie” features, as one of its endearingly hapless performer characters, a musician who plays the saw. Happenstance’s gleeful hat tip to vaudeville with a wink to the present-day 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Accident-prone Daddy Pig, or Hugh Dennis's hapless character in Outnumbered, may not be representative examples of modern fatherhood but they obviously strike a chord or those shows wouldn't be watched by millions. Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z Now all he had to do was reduce crime, create jobs … and help the nation’s hapless rugby team, the Springboks, win a world championship. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z Each hapless guest who arrives at Slade House succumbs to the hosts’ sorcery, their “Theatre of the Mind.” David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Onstage, Beck Bennett played the hapless moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News, while Alec Baldwin returned to his recurring role as President Trump. Jim Carrey Plays Joe Biden in ‘S.N.L.’ Season Premiere 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Sky Sports 1 Despite the abrupt loss of manager Martin O'Neill, Aston Villa made a decent start to the season, albeit against hapless opposition in the form of West Ham. BBC Proms 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z There are parodies, such as the BBC Two sitcom “Upstart Crow,” which imagines Shakespeare as a hapless Stratford dad with a daughter who rolls her eyes at his puns. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Carlo Goldoni’s “The Servant of Two Masters” has a ridiculous plot: A hapless servant hires himself out to two employers at once, then furiously scrambles to conceal his double-dealing. The Professor of Pratfalls 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Six years ago, the Mischief Theater Company arrived on Broadway from Britain with “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a madcap comedy about a hapless amateur theater company attempting to stage a whodunit. British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z I joke that Charles is playing three-level chess when the rest of us are playing checkers, despite being portrayed as hapless or befuddled. "His relationship with Harry, that's a film all by itself" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z It's not that Hall gets to lighten up in "Cold," but he does get to loosen up, creating in Richard a hapless hero you can't help but root for. 'Cold in July' turns up the pulp fiction heat with Texas tale 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Instead, Genis embarked on a string of robberies that must rank as some of the most hapless in the city’s annals of crime. Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Soon the opaque, somewhat hapless Arthur is striving with his collaborators to arrive at their docudrama’s narrative. Review: Fiction and Nonfiction Blur in ‘Actor Martinez’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z At first it seems as though some of these anomalies are hapless or cack-handed; plenty of effects in art are accidental. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z We relished the dark humor of hapless children and haunted tea cozies. Reading to your kids on Halloween is sweeter than candy corn 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z When soprano Lauren Michelle, in the guise of the hapless, pregnant Irina, begins the opening verse of “Trouble Man,” the otherwise stentorian rhythms of “Lost in the Stars” suddenly take on a becoming urgency. ‘Lost in the Stars’ falls short as compelling musical drama 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z That’s the turning point at which hapless Casey falls into the trap laid by his peculiarly intense karate instructor, in the moment at which his needs expand from simple bulking-up to a more existential register. From Midsommar to martial arts: how movie cults got real 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Jon Stewart, Chris Rock and last year’s hapless duo of Anne Hathaway and James Franco are all gifted and interesting performers with an electric spark of relevance. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z It's no accident that the film's most hapless and humorous character, not its most strident, is the one who ends up moving the needle. 'Dear White People' finds the funny in painful truths 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z It refuses to portray Afghans as frightening terrorists, pathetic victims, corrupt leaders or hapless opioid addicts. Matthew Heineman’s documentary "Retrograde": A chilling, intimate view of the Afghanistan War's end 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z I am certainly happy that my generation has haplessly stumbled upon such amazing artists, all while imbibing the Kool-Aid of some pretty A-1 television shows and films. I saw The Cure with my parents. Here's why I hope they don't end up on TikTok 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z The evolution of Tristan – when we first meet him he seems entirely hapless, and then as the series progresses, it feels like he grows into himself a little bit more. "All Creatures Great and Small" writer on bringing "bittersweet" comforts of WWII to the Dales 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Q: For this book, your contribution is a story about a hapless college kid who follows a feisty young woman on a hike after a music festival. ‘Reader, I Married Him’: Tracy Chevalier on why Jane Eyre enthralls us still 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The hangings, shootings, scalpings and other grim ends awaiting the hapless cowboys, prospectors and wagon-train pioneers in this anthology of western tales are incidents of mortal slapstick. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Look at me, I’m as hapless as a governor could be, And I act like a servant, cap in hand, Who can’t take a stand. Style Invitational: Put it in Bee-verse — write a spelling-word poem 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Gaza is no angel, but as much a victim as the “meat” he helps shift: a hapless child soldier in our “omnipresent state of war”. People-smugglers 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Which brings me back to that hapless brontosaurus. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”: The best “Jurassic” sequel delivers a strong animal rig... 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But what if Walter White was just a figment of another hapless father’s imagination? Breaking Bad‘s Brilliant Alternate Ending 2013-11-17T16:24:57Z Ben stands hapless while Edward riffles through his piles of leather bound manuscripts and starts piling them into Jonson’s arms. Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really? 2011-10-26T21:44:13Z Dylan presents himself in these songs as a hapless Everyman, a fool, a coward overwhelmed if not oppressed by events. Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Carrey stars in Mr Popper's Penguins as a hapless property developer who reluctantly finds himself playing dad to an unusual brood of offspring. VIDEO: Carrey on penguins and critics 2011-08-05T07:27:45Z Instead, he convinces Jake to help cover up the crime by placing Walter Woods – that's the name of their hapless victim – back in his own living room propped up in an armchair. PBS' "Guilt" examines what happens to estranged brothers after they finally bond over killing someon 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z In "Blue Jasmine," Blanchett's character, Jasmine, loses everything, including her mind, thanks to her husband's financial and marital misdeeds and her own hapless ways. Cate Blanchett wins best actress Oscar for 'Blue Jasmine' 2014-03-03T05:09:06Z The golden gun’s first victim is the hapless tiger. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z “Wheeee! Now these are our people!” she enthused, after a Be-In performance with the initially hapless band she fronted, Big Brother and the Holding Company. The Real Janis Joplin 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The new piece envisions the title character “not as a hapless, sensuous creature,” she said, but as “a purveyor of powerful political possibilities.” Women’s Voices Theater Festival Celebrates Female Playwrights 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z To avoid the fates of their hapless predecessors, the new police officers were overly enamored of their billy clubs — real police brutality arrived with the real police. Tracing the Origins of the New York Police Department 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The original sitcom followed a hapless World War II Home Guard platoon. Dad's Army film cast announced 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Like Louis C.K.’s hapless hero, he learns but clearly still needs help. Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Junior is sweet but hapless; he does an excellent frog imitation and would obviously let the girls go if it were up to him. Wes Craven's brutal truths about sex, death and childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z That all happens to hapless dupes Murray and Howard in "Iron Curtain," a kind of "The Producers"-on-the-Volga, Hope-and-Crosby romp of silliness that benefits greatly from a whiz-bang mounting at Village Theatre. Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z Galy Gay, the hapless protagonist of Bertolt Brecht’s 1925 play “A Man’s a Man,” falls victim to several mind games during the course of his brainwashing at the hands of British soldiers stationed in India. Theater Review: ‘A Man’s a Man,’ a Brecht Rarity, is Revived 2014-01-31T03:00:17Z Will Jane's hapless cousin be able to keep up with the drinking? Monday morning "Mad Men" 2010-08-30T16:29:00Z There was a whole lot of girl-mane being whipped around, nearly maiming the hapless male partners. "So You Think You Can Dance" recap: Audition overdrive 2010-06-04T09:22:00Z And what is it, by the way, with this playhouse and hapless daughters by the name of Ruby? Theater Review: They're Ripping Themselves Apart Onstage, Inside and Out 2011-11-01T13:30:07Z Too often coming off as hapless and casually whiny in previous seasons, Piper has found her purpose in her illegal panty-selling business. 'Orange is the New Black' Season 3 Finale Recap: Wash Away the Sins 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Footage of his smiling annihilation of a series of white hopes, culminating in the hapless Jim Jeffries, is all the more pleasurable for that. TV highlights 15/02/2013 2013-02-15T07:00:35Z Melodrama teams with maternal martyrs, but in this male-dominated industry many sacrifice stories involve men forfeiting their lives for family, war, a wagon train, a hapless village. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It's extraordinary that this show, in which comedian Lee Kern plays pranks on hapless former X Factor contestants and Hollyoaks stars, can exist. TV review: Celebrity Bedlam 2012-08-11T07:00:02Z There is no scene in The Shallows as good as that sequence in The Birds where Melanie is attacked in the attic, flailing haplessly against her avian attackers, the only sound her own desperate breathing. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z This tale of a hapless but relentless con man, played by the brassy comic Phil Silvers, was set in 1913, before America had entered its first World War. Review: A Con Man Without a Sting in ‘High Button Shoes’ 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z For all that, Mark is portrayed less as hateful than as hapless, and possibly doomed. Review: ‘The Other Side,’ a Harrowing Visit With People on the Margins 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z And while Ray is hapless and almost heroically stupid, Connie is a more complicated, less clownish figure. Review: A ‘Good Time’ Was Not Had by This Critic 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The hapless owner of those organs, probably a store-bought bluefish, will have its body donated to science as part of “Go Fish,” a program from the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 14-20 2012-09-13T22:41:58Z Ms. Le shows them hapless and hulking, touched here and there with wayward sunlight. Troubled Turf: The Photographs of An-My Le 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The women’s relationships also pivot this play toward its depths as bullets begin to hit hapless targets. Abbey Theatre charges through KenCen with ‘The Plough and the Stars’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mendieta is a classic pulp detective: hapless, tough and driven, kind of corrupt but the only cop around not on the cartel’s payroll. In a sea of corpses, a lone detective struggles to solve one murder at a time 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z And I was just a hapless little boy who didn’t know what the hell was going on. Tim Daly, Sibling Bonds and the Stage 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Meanwhile his hapless young owner, Charlie Brown, goes on a winter quest of his own. Holiday Releases: Dinosaurs, Divas, Archers and Tie Fighters 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Alexander III’s son and successor, the hapless Nicholas II, would abdicate in 1917. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Playdate Puppets will illustrate the further adventures of Humpty Dumpty for a marionette show in which audience members help teach the hapless hero new tricks. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z So this hapless little man, who turns out to be Leon Czolgosz, goes off and assassinates President William McKinley. | 'Queen of the Mist' : ?Queen of the Mist? at the Gym at Judson - Review 2011-11-07T03:01:01Z Ms. Chua’s husband plays a large role in this story, even if he is made to sound like her hapless foil. Books of The Times: But Will It All Make Mommy Happy? 2011-01-19T19:28:18Z The text wasn’t as upsetting as the image of the hapless stick figure running with no chance of escaping the huge, beautiful blue curl bearing down on him. Just an hour from the busy Bay Area, a laid-back retreat to soothe the soul 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z In this sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Less,” a financial crisis sends a hapless author around the country in search of money. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z His heroes, hapless or directed, set off on missions of discovery. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Aaron’s resigned attitude toward the hapless Wizards might be the most realistic depiction of Washington life on the show. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 7: Whac-a-Mole 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z This is not New York, where people are caught in a constant battle to get somewhere very quickly and impatient with hapless tourists or just about anyone who blocks the way. The Flâneur Discovers Paris, a Step at a Time 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z A Pakistani migrant worker and a gangster, along with hundreds of other equally hapless individuals who have fallen foul of South Korean capitalism, gamble it all. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes their justice was poetic, such as when pirates commandeered a slaver, armed the captured Africans with knives, then sent the hapless captain back on his merry way. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z It’s one of life’s angry, hapless victims against another, and much of the show revolves around musical expressions of their mutually low self-esteem. ‘Cake Off’: Signature’s new musical is lively, but not fully baked 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z What Lévy sees as a virtuous hegemon, Carpenter sees as a naïve and hapless superpower playing the sucker to “foreign factions … adept at exploiting Americans’ sincere desire for the spread of enlightened liberal capitalist ideals.” New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Among the five suspects, might the guilty party be a vengeful actress or a hapless playwright, or perhaps the polite-seeming gent who knows a thing or two about potions? Review: ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ ‘The Plough and the Stars’ and ‘The Game’s Afoot’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z “So, no suits?” asks the hapless Wally, who soon gets booted from the band. Capturing the Anarchy in the Sex Pistols 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z That hapless polar bear is the rule, not the exception. Animals Sly Enough to Surprise David Attenborough 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Yeah, that would be Will Arnett as a seemingly hapless Batman. Trailer for The Lego Movie Is Funniest of 2013 2013-11-04T14:00:47Z It was a piquant sketch of contemporary life and widowhood involving hapless encounters with operators at telephone company call centers and the eye-crossing rage that wrestling with technology can elicit. Delia Ephron Writes Her Way Through Cancer to a Happy Ending 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z There was still no wind, so he handed us over to another hapless captain who took up the towline and hauled us to the dock at Barraterre, Great Exuma. On a Bahamas Sail, 8 Friends Get a Taste of Robinson Crusoe 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Full-blown zombification takes place mere seconds after a hapless victim is fatally chomped. ‘World War Z’: Abuzz with speedy, swarming zombies 2013-06-20T03:06:48Z Along the way, there are sexual infidelity and comic subplots involving Michèle’s aging mother and the mother’s young lover; Michèle’s ex-husband;and their hapless son, who is raising his girlfriend’s child. ‘Elle,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert as a Rape Victim Who Turns the Tables, Rivets Critics 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z LaRue is made to seem a hapless dupe caught up in scandal on a scale he could never have imagined. Books of The Times: ?Watergate,? a Novel by Thomas Mallon 2012-02-15T20:34:23Z Kelly Hutchinson is sweetly in thrall as Solness' hapless young mistress, while Max Gordon Moore is effective as her humble, oblivious fiance. Review: Spirited, sexy version of 'Master Builder' 2013-05-20T23:43:09Z The joke is less about this hapless coder being sexist than it is about him being bad at concocting app ideas. Silicon Valley Needs to Address the Industry's 'Woman Problem' in Season 2 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z For 50 years, unknown even to his wife, he produced “Wally’s Gang,” 126 hand-drawn comic books tracing the lives of a group of hapless Midwestern men. Outsider Art 2017: A Top 10 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Adrian Grove cuts a poignant, hapless figure as the ostracised Donald, who is inevitably obliged to amuse the others with duck impressions on demand. Blue Remembered Hills - review 2013-05-02T14:05:36Z A hapless pursuit follows, which is experienced by the victim as extreme harassment. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z What she means is she likes playing parental incompetents – hapless drifters or neglectful control-freaks – whom she can exorcise and give a happy ending. Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I'm always looking for what will make me feel bad' 2011-08-05T18:59:01Z Lucy has grown up in the margins, in the taut silences between her mother and her drunken, hapless father, Tom, an erratic wreck of a man whom she nevertheless adores. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z So the hapless hack must decide what the story is, and then write it. Take big, wonderful and startling ideas and make them comprehensible 2011-04-13T14:36:42Z Chihiro is gradually transformed from a hapless, sullen girl into an active, industrious protagonist. Spirited Away: No 8 2010-10-21T10:47:00Z When he learned that I was close to quitting my eighth-grade basketball team mid-season, he typed a letter that included a story about his hapless experience trying out for the Holy Cross basketball team. Lessons from My Father 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z A high-powered agent was shot by a producer for having an affair with his wife that had played out in the apartment of a hapless employee. The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z He asked one hapless contestant, "Did you eat paint chips as a child?" Just say no, J. Lo: 'American Idol' judges waffle in season opener 2011-01-20T07:31:04Z Society, with a capital S, is no autonomous monster here, devouring hapless victims. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Of course, back then, the objective was to get into the shows - by sneaking past a hapless usher or using a fake invitation. On the Runway Blog: Less Elbow Room During Paris Fashion Week 2012-09-28T16:46:01Z The film also centers on Zim’s hapless attempts at planetary conquest, but his longtime nemesis Professor Membrane is determined to thwart his plans once again — if Zim doesn’t manage to do that himself first. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Amazing Jonathan Documentary’ and JoJo Siwa 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z When you are 18, as I was when I first read them, you fall under their thrall, seeing their heroines as hapless victims. ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Particularly memorable is the time she chased hapless former MP Phil Woolas around a TV studio and cornered him at a press conference. Observer Ethical Awards 2013: Joanna Lumley – National Campaigner of the Year 2013-06-15T23:07:16Z Of course clueless, hapless or antagonistic mothers and fathers have been a staple of cinema at least since Jim Backus stood in his apron and endured James Dean’s histrionic whining in “Rebel Without a Cause.” Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z Thursday's New York premiere of "The Interview," which follows two hapless journalists who are recruited to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was canceled following the latest threat. Theater owners say cinemas may decide to delay Sony's 'The Interview' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z And whether predator, victim or hapless onlooker, they are accompanied at every turn by a spiky wit that may, among other things, make you reconsider how you order Japanese food. Once Cryptic, ‘The Treatment’ Now Proves Trenchantly Funny 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Set against search engines, cloud computing, frictionless commerce and social media algorithms, Paik’s work can feel a bit hapless and passe. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The character arc of McGill/Goodman seems to mirror that of hapless high school chemistry teacher Walter White into crime boss Heisenberg in "Breaking Bad." 'Better Call Saul' will get two-night premiere event on AMC 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In this new role she cheerfully bosses her hapless street dealers with no-nonsense demands and a superior knowledge of the drug trade. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z For the rest of the movie, though, he plays the hapless hayseed and, with a feeble nod to Chaplin, a sad clown. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z Cruise, almost unbelievably, kills a dozen or so people in cold blood, as he is driven around by hapless taxi driver Jamie Foxx. Steve Carell’s Foxcatcher: when good guys go bad 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Wednesday, was relatively civilized — or, anyway, looked less like the kind of Black Friday mob scene that ends with a hapless shopper being trampled in the crush. | Art Basel Miami Beach, Night Two: After Art-Fair Opening, Contented Revelry 2010-12-02T19:52:00Z “Chinatown!” she snaps at the hapless Asian wedding party planner before dressing her down for some minor canapé infraction. Bachelorette: Something Borrowed, Something New 2012-09-06T12:00:27Z In a moment of blind rage and youthful hubris, he runs a hapless middle-age guy off a deserted Eastern Washington highway, launching himself on the road to his own fate. A dazzling new book by David Guterson 2011-10-15T04:27:07Z Her son, Art, is a hapless nature blogger and pointless pseud. Ali Smith’s Seasonal Cycle Turns to a Dreamy ‘Winter’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Plus the "backstage" antics of some hapless BBC executives prove all too prescient. TV highlights 22 December 2010-12-20T01:05:01Z In the present, Naoufel — the able-bodied, if hapless, young man — is gone. ‘I Lost My Body’ Review: The Quest of a Severed Hand 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In the first episode, poor trainee Patrick is like a hapless Gomer Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, receiving a verbal lashing for forgetting how many seats are in a row on a 747. A Very British Airline: an unflattering snapshot of the UK psyche 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It is hard to think of any occasion you’d like to share with these hapless, mostly glum folks. Theater Review: ‘A Family for All Occasions,’ at Bank Street Theater 2013-05-13T02:00:10Z As with David Copperfield, the story of his life begins with his birth, in his case in a trailer to a hapless, precariously sober teenage mother. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Even worse, he said, are the hapless tourists who arrive at Liverpool Street Station in central London and believe they, in fact, are in Liverpool, the Beatles' hometown. Wrong Abbey Road: Station draws lost Beatles fans 2012-11-16T12:16:04Z Even as Jackson sold amusing essays to women’s magazines about her madcap life with four children and a hapless husband, her menacing fiction revealed the turmoil roiling beneath the surface. Ghost stories 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z George Christopher, the hapless sage played by Ted Danson in the HBO comedy detective series “Bored to Death,” was conceived as an amalgam of legendary New York journalists. Hitchens and Plimpton Inspire ?Bored to Death? 2011-11-02T23:45:06Z Greek is also a kind of remake of last year's Funny People, Apatow's ambitious, endless study of celebrity and its hapless satellites. Get Him to the Greek Review: Too Many Suppository Jokes? Or Too Few? 2010-06-03T22:55:00Z In true Stillman style, Love & Friendship is a weightless and witty affair, pitting hapless, stuffed-shirted gentlemen against wily, capricious women as it skips between stately homes. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The new work opens with Nixon’s fall and ends with Reagan’s narrow failure to grab the 1976 Republican presidential nomination from the hapless incumbent, Gerald Ford. Purpose and worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The boat belongs to a doctor, who has invited his son-in-law, his son-in-law’s hapless brother, a junior colleague and a pair of business partners who are old friends of the doctor. Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ the Manly Games Played on the Aegean 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Dressed as Boston cops and sporting false moustaches, the thieves spent well over an hour in the Gardner galleries after handcuffing the hapless guards - both young music students doing part-time work - in the basement. In the frame 2010-03-18T09:05:00Z The show’s masterstroke, though, is its weekly casting of guest stars from the French film world, who play hapless or imperious versions of themselves with varying degrees of skill but always evident enthusiasm. A TV Grand Tour, in Time for the Weekend 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z I'm talking, of course, about the assorted villains and hapless timeservers in Armando Iannucci's satirical TV show The Thick of It. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z That character would be hapless Cousin Greg, former family outsider and now assistant to Tom Wamsgans, the new boss at a television network and son-in-law to its corporate overlord, Logan Roy. Filthy rich: why the awful antics of Succession are so addictive 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z But neither is as vivid as the hapless Mr Micawber in “David Copperfield”, whose homilies on the misery of debt are still quoted today. Short and sweet 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s true that upon arriving in the New World they were so hapless that they would surely have perished during their first winter without the help of the American Indians. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z If these dazed, hapless men get most of the screen time, the women in the movie, operating in the margins, consistently outwit them. ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ Review: This Old House, Lucknow Style 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Characters who unfairly berate, grossly underestimate or haplessly misunderstand Christopher are given their comeuppance. Tonys 2015: 'Curious Incident of the Dog' brings 'autistic perspective to life' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Rachel upgrades her impression of Borne from vegetable to animal when she realizes the creature creeps around when she’s not there, eating compost worms and whatever hapless creatures it can find. Jeff Vandermeer's new dystopian novel "Borne" is lyrical and harrowing; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The temptations strewn in the path of these kindly but hapless caregivers result from the accidental morning death of their patient, Davy, a lonely elderly man who loved Frank Sinatra and gambling on the horses. Review: 'Fly Me To the Moon' is a soaring farce 2012-09-13T00:53:08Z Annabelle is irritatingly hapless, but she can display unexpected resourcefulness and toughness. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z These two demimondes smash together in the circuitous aftermath of a gangland shootout and Michiko’s dragooning of a hapless nerd as her paid boyfriend. ‘Why Don’t You Play in Hell?,’ a Violent Japanese Comedy 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z But there’s not a clunker in the cast, which also includes a brusquely comic Alvin Epstein, as the ancient family retainer, and Ken Cheeseman as a hapless neighbor always in search of a handout. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z More recently, he's displayed his range as a hapless press officer in The Thick Of It, providing a real scene-stealing performance. This week's new comedy 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z But the hapless Edgar of “Asuncion,” Mr. Eisenberg’s genial wisp of a play about the delicate mysteries of male friendship, is by far the least appealing character onstage. Theater Review: ?Asuncion? at the Cherry Lane Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z A former office temp, who worked as a PA for Comic Relief, she rose to fame with her television sitcom Miranda, in which she plays a hapless heroine who is hopeless with men. AUDIO: Miranda Hart on her comical life 2012-10-09T08:47:07Z Nikolai Schukoff, as her unsuccessful and hapless suitor Erik, is an ardent singer who becomes a tragicomic figure in this staging, with exaggerated attitudes of suffering that draw some audience laughter. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z At some point the remote tandem would route a call back to the phone phreak, who could then prank the hapless caller. From “phreaks” to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s “eureka!” moment 2013-02-16T14:00:00Z The sense of hapless beings ensnared in the ferocious rituals of some subterranean world they don't understand couldn't be more vivid. Review: Seattle troupe Manifold Motion turns old INS Building into a surreal labyrinth 2010-11-13T23:16:00Z For most of the two-hour duration of "Sweet Girl," what played out onscreen was just another work of violent, masculine rage theater, just another tough guy standing up for his otherwise hapless wife and daughter. The shock twist in “Sweet Girl” subverts the typical masculine revenge thriller — with a catch 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Urgent and witty, they are addressed to her hapless one-time beau and current roommate, Everett. Review | ‘The Roxy Letters’ is just the kind of comic novel we need right now 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z “American Buffalo,” his foul-mouthed drama about three hapless Chicago crooks, had opened two years earlier, in 1975, eliciting cries from critics that a bracingly original new voice had arrived. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z “Hell Is Empty,” a film by the director Jo Shaffer about a girl who haplessly joins and eventually dismantles a remote cult, follows this tradition. ‘Hell Is Empty’ Review: Sins of the Father 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z As the writer and director, Theresa Bennett, sympathizes with her hapless heroine, the script surrounds her with equally directionless, intimacy-challenged souls. Review: In ‘Social Animals,’ Stalled Lives and Sexual Frustrations 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The real villain, of course, is ManBearPig, the grotesque human/ursine/porcine hybrid that mauls hapless townsfolk who continue to deny its existence because doing so is so darn inconvenient. “South Park” blames climate change on Grandpa’s selfishness and it’s barely a metaphor at... 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Absurdly plotted, ineptly scripted and haplessly acted, "Creature" is a new variation on the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" theme. 'Creature': a hot mess on the bayou 2011-09-09T16:09:04Z He seems to have been one of those hapless innocents incapable of faking it, of being anything other than what he was, even if coming out in the 1920s meant social ruin and family exile. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z He imagines characters so careful in their reasoning that they are deeply, maddeningly unreasonable but also tenderly hapless at the same time. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z I want to screech at the hapless soothsayer. A hater’s guide to astrology: How I learned to stop getting angry about people’s dumb beliefs 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z “Evelyn is like the court jester, the weirdo on the outside, and I’m the kind of dopey, hapless one who is asking questions and doesn’t understand anything.” A Choreographer Gives In to His Ambition of Recklessness 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z After the cancellation of ABC’s hapless “Inhumans,” it brings the Marvel total back up to 10 shows on six channels. Review: Marvel Moves to New Orleans for ‘Cloak & Dagger’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Whishaw will lend his voice to author Michael Bond's hapless bear from "darkest Peru" in the film, which will come out in the UK in November. Gambon joins Paddington film cast 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z I won’t reveal what lands her in jail, except to say she’s guilty but that there are extenuating circumstances ignored by her hapless, fumbling public defender. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Some of the worst misrepresentations are the half-truths told by flight attendants eager to foist credit card applications on hapless passengers, says Rocky Horan, who writes for a frequent-flier blog called Upgrd.com. ‘Free’ airline perks you earn from a credit card often come with a catch 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Is white working-class racism merely the result of evil politicians hoodwinking hapless white people? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Friedman’s case — illuminated with stories of hapless civilians encountering excesses of force or surveillance — is not that police should be denied the best tools, but that there should be clear rules. Two Books Argue the Case for Police Reform From Within 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Younger, a hapless criminal defense investigator, has had some success in educating his dodgy clients about smart ways to beat a rap. Hate Thy Neighbor. Or Maybe Just Kill Him. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The script provides a few hints about her relationship with her mother and her marriage to the hapless Mladen, but she is mostly a grand enigma, a heroine of literature stranded in dreary, pedestrian circumstances. Review: ‘The Lesson’ Is a Test of Conscience and Patience 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Soon, the hapless Cal and the resourceful, determined Teddy hop on horses in pursuit of the boys. They’re Not Lost in the Woods, They’re Thriving 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z He concentrated on other projects, including a magazine with the hapless title Smart for Men, but couldn’t kick the desire to return to the kitchen. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z This one is built around a typically geologic misadventure involving the hapless Scrat, the prehistoric squirrel-thing, and his elusive acorn from the "Ice Age" features. 'Rio': A rare bird that justifies the 3-D process 2011-04-14T22:08:36Z The intuitively entertaining Ijames knows his history, and the lampoon scenes are packed with information as a fevered, hapless Martha finally starts asking questions about the system she’s been on top of all her life. Review | First ladies on the edge in two plays and a musical 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Where it was radical was in the casting of five confident, unapologetic gay men to dish advice to hapless straight men. Jonathan Van Ness on being HIV positive: 'It gave me a reason to really fight' 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Their hapless tone of “whatever” is captured in an essay about a Steely Dan album. Books of The Times: William Gibson?s ?Distrust That Particular Flavor? - Review 2012-01-01T20:27:07Z In the middle of all of these helpless and hapless discussions, there was this: Helen went to her clinic in Whitefish, Mont. Perspective | This is what the beginning of the end of the Roe era feels like 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Junior’s hapless death-on-command here is an obvious reference to the Vietnam war; children in 1972 really were being ordered off to die. Wes Craven's brutal truths about sex, death and childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Jack, the hapless narrator of Lipsyte’s latest novel, is an East Village musician trying to break into the punk scene of the 1990s. 8 Books Coming in December 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z "The Rockford Files," of course, became an Emmy-winning TV classic following the misadventures of its hapless ex-con private eye played by James Garner. Prolific TV producer Stephen J. Cannell dies 2010-10-01T17:24:00Z We are significantly disenfranchised, to an extent so humiliating that it reminds me of the hapless contestants on those awful Japanese TV shows, being subjected to a litany of impossible tasks or questions. The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z Rusty’s hapless salesmanship is a gag of a different kind. Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball Video Game Tests Haggling Skills 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z As it happens, this was also the route taken by the Black Death: novelty summer songs were the original music virals, an infection brought home by hapless travellers to ravage the nation. Tom Ewing 2010-06-24T22:05:00Z “It operates in marginal subcultures, and it stars determined though hapless dreamers,” Ms. Dunn said of the work-in-progress in an interview with The New York Times. Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z A golden metallic straitjacket, which nods to Houdini, is strewn atop a casting of Mailer's writing desk, where he toiled for a decade on his hapless Nile misadventure. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z “Captain America: Civil War,” “X-Men: Apocalypse” and even the hapless “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” all had their weekends of box-office domination. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The president, trailing in the polls and hapless in his response to the coronavirus, had invited him to discuss campaign strategy, Bongino recalled in an interview from his home in Stuart, Fla. Dan Bongino isn’t just taking over where Rush Limbaugh left off — he’s building a conservative media universe 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Sony said it stood by the film makers of "The Interview," a comedy about two hapless journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korea' Kim Jong Un, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. Sony pulls release of 'Interview' as U.S determines North Korea behind attack 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Orth offered some nice vocal writing for her tenor, Michael Brandenburg, as the hapless candidate Wyatt. At Washington National Opera, 20-minute operas are on the right track Much of the film — about a hapless man whose bad decisions lead to a dire downward spiral — was shot using Seattle-based crew members. Seattle stands out at Sundance Festival 2011-01-29T00:31:32Z Is it because we are experiencing a failing, slow-motion invasion by a hapless species from another solar system? There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Martin, who had lived briefly among them, framed her observations as fieldwork, portraying herself a hapless outsider determined to document her neighbors’ venal, rapaciously competitive ways. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z They handed over to an equally hapless duo, only one of whom was at the microphone. Radio head: Radio Christmas 2010-12-22T08:00:00Z It's not an existential question, but sums up the elemental qualities of Orton's music; her hapless between-songs persona contrasts with the powerful figure in them. Beth Orton – review 2012-11-28T14:38:14Z Mark Waldstein, as hapless Howard, epitomizes a suitor lacking in romance and conviction. Love is no ‘Picnic’ in ReAct’s production 2013-07-08T18:36:09Z Besides the unforgiving terrain, voyagers feared what were said to be desert spirits, who it was believed lured hapless travelers to their demise in the shifting sands. Explorer: A Desert Blooms Along China?s Silk Road 2010-10-15T19:26:00Z Comyns’s hapless heroine’s vicissitudes follow the original story closely as she updates and rationalizes the extreme, weird sequence of murder and revenge. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z It will be a relief to relax with an account of how, in some hapless organisms, evolution often gets it spectacularly wrong. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Both feature dishonest and foolish men, hapless women and a runaway train of events. New & Noteworthy, From Ants to Erin Brockovich 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “Raising Hope,” on Fox, began promisingly with a hapless single father whose bungling ways with his baby verged on child abuse, but the series soon lost its nerve. Television Review: ?Up All Night? and ?Free Agents? ? Review 2011-09-13T18:44:09Z But did she actually need them to intimidate the hapless Anderson? Tabloid revives memories of the 'Manacled Mormon' 2010-10-12T07:50:00Z Through all the cringing, there’s the comfort that many have had experiences like Jim’s, but nothing so epically hapless and clumsy, and no heart-to-hearts with Dad afterwards to heighten the agony. American Pie at 20: why the raucous comedy could never be made today 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The hapless Sheik’s row with his harridan wife becomes an entertaining show for the production’s cast and crew. ‘The White Sheik’: Fellini’s Charming Farce About Fandom 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Once, at a party, I watched a girl commandeer a hapless passerby into taking her picture. Her Facebook disaster show 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z Around the same time, the East India Company, never known for its altruism, sent tea thieves to China posing as hapless merchants. Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z They start falling like flies, as Lewis – plod personified – toddles along haplessly in the murderer's wake, occasionally stopping off at the pub to stare miserably into a pint of warm bitter. The weekend's TV: Spiral 2011-04-04T07:00:05Z The role: Zellweger stars as Bridget Jones, a hapless 32-year-old who decides to keep a diary documenting a year in which she sets out looking for love in all the wrong places. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z But that magnetism works best in a crowd, as in The Hangover, where he was the hilariously sleazy glue holding a hapless group of guys together. Limitless Review: Wall Street on Steroids 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z Though, like the hapless Capt. Avery, one might need to consult a map or hire a guide to find one’s way through the maze of streets. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The film celebrates unequivocally the triumph of the elect few over the hapless many. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z Yet children all around me seemed amused by the scenes of the quarreling lovers and laughed outright during the charming episodes when amateur players rehearse and perform their hapless version of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Isango Ensemble’s South African Setting 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The movie is a kind of awed testimonial to the power of madness and an expression of contempt for sweet reason, which comes off as hapless. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Boston, for its part, just lost three of four to the usually hapless Baltimore Orioles. The Red Sox and Braves' Swoon: Behind a Baseball Collapse 2011-09-23T11:55:00Z Even the hapless thrift store owner who found Mazie’s diary in a junk heap adds his two cents. ‘Queen of the Bowery’ embraced roles of sinner and saint 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z When it’s revealed that Amy has framed Nick, we get a classic tale about a manipulative, wicked woman who traps a hapless man in her web. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z When she rips off the tape, the hapless victim about to become the new Guy Fawkes is revealed to be none other than … Paskalev! New band of the day – No 1,294: Mikhael Paskalev 2012-06-22T08:00:00Z We’ve already read about the hapless white men in their early middle age, navigating the politics of uptight English departments and falling hopelessly in love with bewitching undergraduates. Is It a Campus or a Powder Keg? In This Novel, It’s Both. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Dutch is Godot for our hapless souls; is Reagan, by extension, some trumped-up incarnation of the divine? “Fargo” recap: Season two is already so much better than season one 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Left to raise the baby is the hapless Noel, the baby's putative father and a purposeless alcoholic stuck in a dead-end job. Maeve Binchy's 'Minding Frankie': one motherless baby, many willing minders 2011-02-03T00:02:03Z The hapless maths teacher role marks a break from Depp's trademark of strong and slightly peculiar characters. Interview: One flash of her neck and Johnny Depp was done for 2010-12-03T14:43:00Z He made, or haplessly fronted for, some execrable decisions, but hating him took conscious effort. George W. Bush’s Painted Atonements 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z In an early scene, the son, Ki-woo, catches up with an old high school pal over drinks and refers to himself as a baeksu — the prospect of college stunted by his family’s hapless finances. When a Track Suit Embodies a Nation 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z David Arquette said it was even easier to remind people of his screen identity as the hapless officer Dewey Riley. They Screamed, We Screamed. Now They’re in ‘Scream’ Again. 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z In 2007's "Hidden Moon," Inspector O's hapless assignment involves investigating a bank robbery, but no one is talking, which means the government may not want him to find the answers. Spy novels by real spies: Anthony Burgess, John le Carr? and others 2010-08-18T20:33:00Z But it was a hapless start: The next five editions were canceled because of the pandemic. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The bulging eyes of the hapless victim, as he lolls from the pod, still inform occasional nightmares. 'Parents sent me to therapy': you tell us the films that scarred you as kids 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The chains are pressed into the blacktop, as if some hapless squirrel or armadillo squashed by a speeding car. Bling with a cheeky ring in Luis Gispert's 'Aqua Regia' exhibition 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z As one of the Oogani gods, you possess the bodies of your hapless flock to help free their chieftains and get rid of the Boolis. This week's new games 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z After some hapless adventures as a failed guard dog, he finds his forever home by doing what dogs do best: being resilient and remaining loyal to those who count on him. New Picture Books Bring Dogs and Cats to Life, Hilariously 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Batsman Bert Vance was the hapless sap who was roped in to bowl, because, Morrison said afterwards, "he was coming to the end of his career and didn't have averages to protect." Marion Cotillard to star in next Dardenne brothers film 2013-02-26T17:34:48Z A matrix of mismatched romantic pairings ensues on the island, due to Ariel’s hapless applications of love potions. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z In the similarly seemingly improvised “2 Flags,” a battle to the death between two fairly hapless gangs — the Hoods and the Stripes — on the streets, rooftops and beaches of Tel Aviv. Last Chance: Emerging ?Young Israelis? at Lesley Heller Workspace 2010-08-11T22:45:00Z "The Brink" stars Jack Black as a hapless foreign agent embroiled in a geopolitical crisis unfolding in terrorism-ravaged Pakistan. Jerry Weintraub: Jack Black's 'The Brink' is no 'The Interview' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z O’Rourke added that, “In sequels, Oz’s true ruler … turns out to be a girl named Ozma, who spent her youth under a spell — one that turned her into a hapless boy.” Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z They administer the tests That have countless hapless students feeling overwhelmed and stressed. Style Invitational Week 1269: Mess with our heads 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The show and accompanying book of Shaw's Thrift Store Paintings spawned a market for the hapless and the abject, the sentimental and crazy. Artist Jim Shaw stuffs American pop culture through the Rinse Cycle 2012-11-08T17:21:36Z Using a screenplay written by Kiarostami, Panahi portrays a cross-section of Iranian society from the hapless man’s pizza runs around town, which bring him face to face with the country’s galling inequalities. What to Know About Jafar Panahi, the Imprisoned Iranian Filmmaker 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Hirshey makes a strong case that the “intimate rituals of utter frustration and despair” that Brown shared with her hapless mother, along with her idealization of her dead father, shaped her forever. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Harry Langdon plays the hapless assistant, who confronts equally dire consequences. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The blank sheets, in a range of musty off-whites, invoke potential, but even more so a hapless obsolescence — paper as old-fashioned, quaint as the dated furniture it sits on. Jeff Colson, wizard of illusion, at Maloney Fine Art 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Adelaide’s life unfolds in the sordid surroundings of Britannia Mews as a consequence; she pursues the hapless drawing teacher, despite his attempts to warn her off. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z He is also himself, haplessly telling the story, interrupted by his daughter. What you hear is what you get in 'The Encounter' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z A similar helplessness inhabits the hapless Absolutely Fabulous film, which seemed to quake with an almost adorable – were it not so totally misguided – sense that it needed to say something about the “trans question”. How cinema failed diversity in 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Middle school is the pack of wolves surrounding the hapless lamb crumpling in slow-motion tears under his or her backpack. Mommy has anger issues! My daughters are pre-adolescent, I’m pre-menopausal 2014-05-10T23:00:00Z The Dee-Luxe crew includes Latinos, a Native American and one hapless white dude, but the perspective is black. ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The DreamWorks Animation 3-D movie about a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons collected $43.3 million during the three days beginning on Friday, according to studio estimates on Sunday. "Dragon" knocks "Alice" off top box office perch 2010-03-29T16:42:00Z Though the bakery is cutely called Bread & Buttons, and sells crocheted monkeys and mittens along with the scones, he is not just satirizing small town America, with its hopeless reinvention schemes and hapless part-time politicians. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Wulfric, the hapless wolf, develops a sudden sweet tooth through a botched brain experiment at Hunter College. Review: In ‘Little Red’s Hood,’ Tweets, Sweets and a Wolf on the Way to Grandma’s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It also explores – as did The Thick of It, through Rebecca Front’s hapless overpromoted minister – the tendency of both men and women in politics to become misogynistic. What Hillary Clinton could learn from TV's women in power 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Though “The Year of Spectacular Men” never quite reaches comedic elegance, this heavily scripted movie is not as flat-footed as the hapless Izzy. Review: ‘The Year of Spectacular Men’ Is a Family Affair, Clichés Included 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Danny, a hard-working, hapless contractor saving to build a house for his Korean parents, is trying to return merchandise while fretting over his family and finances. ‘Beef’ Review: Mad in America 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Two recent games — Surgeon Simulator, about a hapless surgeon, and Goat Simulator, about an anarchic goat — are among the well-known irreverent games to spring from game jams. Train Jam: Strangers on a Train, Creating Video Games 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Under the light of each other’s often hapless scrutiny, all sixteen characters start to grow. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z You may recall that Kugelmass, the hapless literature professor in one of Mr. Allen’s classic comic sketches, contrived to transport himself into the pages of “Madame Bovary.” Movie Review: ‘In the House,’ Starring Fabrice Luchini 2013-04-18T21:57:15Z I tried supporting the hapless Mets for a while, but my heart wasn’t in it. My Father and Sandy Koufax 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Capaldi was named best TV comedy actor for his role as foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, while Front won the best TV comedy actress award for her portrayal of hapless politician Nicola Murray. British comedy awards: The Thick of It actors lead winners 2012-12-13T01:39:59Z It is about a criminally insane schoolgirl and three hapless Hong Kong schoolboys who become tangled in a web of terrorism, bombings, animal abuse and a final encounter with gun-wielding Western bad guys. Movies: Bringing a Wealth of Cinematic Knowledge to the Screen in 3-D 2011-07-11T13:00:05Z In case we miss the point, the hapless creatures from Bruegel’s “The Blind Leading the Blind” cavort, in miniature, along the painting’s bottom edge. Nicole Eisenman, Fluidly Merging Past, Present and Future 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The hapless mariner washes ashore — as such sailors usually do — on a deserted island, a tropical, rock-capped outcropping with wide, sandy beaches flanking a dense bamboo forest. Review: ‘The Red Turtle,’ Life Marooned With an Ornery Reptile 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Frida wishes she could tell the instructors to kiss her fiery core, but there’s no point; it would be just another shovelful of dirt from the grave she’s haplessly digging. A Chilling Debut Novel Puts Mothers Under Surveillance and Into Parenting Rehab 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z He just exhibited an understanding and a seriousness, and I began to envision what that turn would feel like when he goes from an innocuous, hapless poser into something that is dangerous. Five top film directors on tipsy chats, mysterious packages and more 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The image of the hapless zookeeper who's better at relationships with animals than with people is a bit of a stereotype. Zookeeper Gillian?de Felice on?Zookeeper 2011-08-07T22:01:01Z At the moment, Analytical Flavor Systems does not rely on hapless amateurs like me to populate its database. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Just because Girl Heaven sells sparkly pink hair slides and feathery tutus, it doesn't make everyone who shops there a hapless victim of a sexualising consumer culture. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z Simultaneously funny and grotesque, “Wax Museum Strangler, Coney Island, N.Y.,” features a wax museum tableau of a killer choking his hapless female victim. Finding Alchemy and Art on a Coney Island Scary Ride 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z But the hapless warrior hero of a new Japanese samurai comedy film must succeed with his humor or pay the ultimate price -- by committing ritual suicide. Laughter or ritual suicide in Japan samurai comedy 2011-06-08T17:55:35Z But for the most part, Jasmine, played by Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett, has lost everything including her mind, thanks to her husband's financial and marital misdeeds and her own hapless ways. Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine:' portrait of a lady who loses it all 2013-07-26T01:31:45Z In Béziers, at the northern edge of resistance, over 15,000 men, women and children — the entire population of the town as well as hordes of hapless refugees — were butchered. Languedoc, France: Brutal History and Beautiful Setting 2010-05-07T18:37:00Z He is bemused at the hapless Albert's failure to recognise Edinburgh Castle. Cannes 2012: The Angels' Share – review 2012-05-21T19:30:02Z Winger stood motionless like a lizard, waiting for the next hapless journalist to stumble in while I tripped on an iron stake that held down the tent’s guylines. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z "You would make my foot itch, mate," she tells the hapless Alan. TV review: Dragons' Den 2011-07-31T21:00:00Z It is disheartening to watch this gentle, hapless young man slowly turn to stone. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 4: Friends or Foes 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Deemed soft in the head, the hapless Huw is mercilessly bullied by his father and subjected to hellfire sermons by the local preacher when his erotic experiments in verse are accidentally discovered. The Devil Inside Him 2010-05-12T20:30:00Z Since this may be the one situation where Greg isn't a hapless jerk, it's clearer why Joan feels like it's her wifely duty to let him follow his dreams. "Mad Men" recap: A man in a room with a checkbook 2010-08-09T12:13:00Z Leading the action are the charming, if rather hapless protagonists, Andy and Terry, who live in a gargantuan tree house replete with a marshmallow machine, bowling alley and tank of man-eating sharks. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Virgil recalls that the young pitcher was “adored equally in this hapless village for his brush with greatness and for never achieving it.” Review | Leif Enger’s fans have waited 10 years for ‘Virgil Wander.’ Was it worth it? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Its success justified the release of 2016’s London Has Fallen, a film so unstoppably hapless that it made its predecessor look like a masterpiece. Angel Has Fallen: is Gerard Butler Hollywood's weirdest action hero? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Anything but that Oswald, a hapless former Marine, was in the right place at the right time, with motive and opportunity to pull off one of the most audacious crimes in American history. 50 years on, finding profit in `truth' on JFK case 2013-05-11T16:07:15Z Never mind that the Ole Miss Rebels are in the middle of another hapless, hurts-to-watch losing season and haven’t won a Southeastern Conference title since the year the Beatles released their first LP. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z Parker, as played by Andrew Garfield, is no hapless super-nerd, but a mumbling, shambling skateboarder who, though perhaps not extra-strength catnip to the ladies, has no trouble in catching their eye. The Amazing Spider-Man 2012-06-19T08:16:43Z Historians still dispute the figures, but seven days later the army had killed perhaps 10,000 defenders, unarmed helpers and hapless bystanders. Spring uprising 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z This is like watching a horror movie when the hapless heroine decides to check the basement because she hears a loud noise. 2010-02-12T15:13:00Z In “Ariodante,” the acoustic disturbances during the first act were so severe, and the lighting so hapless, that it would be unfair to judge Mr. Jones’s production by its premiere. Aix-en-Provence Festival Presents Mozart and Handel 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Martin may wish to come over like a hapless Mr Bean, but he clearly has powers beyond even the average rock god. Coldplay ? review 2010-12-20T12:50:24Z The Interceptor aims to zap each case enough times to prevent this while yelling at hapless cohorts. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z His first cover, for the November “nostalgia” issue, mimicked a Norman Rockwell painting, with an old-time barber giving a buzz cut to a hapless hippie wearing beads and a peace medallion. Michael Gross, Who Designed the ‘Ghostbusters’ Logo, Dies at 70 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Wagner’s alter ego, Bud Wiggins — the hapless screenwriter hero of “Force Majeure” — puts in one of the more engaging appearances here. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z “Lost Girl” could be more than routine if we felt Bo’s magnetism the way her hapless victims do, but through the first few episodes Ms. Silk is more stolid than steamy. Television Review: ?The Fades? on BBC America; ?Lost Girl? on Syfy - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z That’s not inappropriate for Siegfried, a hapless character in many interpretations. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Met Opera House 2012-06-26T21:12:40Z At Feslek, the river dries up altogether, and the hapless author is obliged to shoulder his canoe and follow a man making his way down river on a motorbike. Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review 2012-07-06T21:55:10Z The hapless French woman who phones rescue services begging for a chopper ride? Conquering your fears in Alaska: go big, or go home 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z But when she meets hapless brothers Nicky and Jay, their drunken prank sets in motion a chaotic series of deadly events. What to watch on Thursday: ‘Two Weeks to Live’ on HBO Max 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z There is also the sublime episode Are You Right There Father Ted, in which everything the hapless cleric does convinces various people on Craggy Island that he is rabidly rightwing. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z He communes with his heavenly father during epileptic seizures, and gathers around him a gaggle of hapless apostles, to whom he preaches drippy sermons about peace. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z With luck, the end result will be more choice for the hapless Briton. Amazon's Lovefilm deal could turn every home into a multiplex 2011-01-24T07:00:08Z Thankfully, what seems like a dreary and possibly hapless series that glamorizes suicidal ideation instead shifts into the tried-and-true plane crash survival story. Quibi is here with two dozen new shows. Are any of them worth watching? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It appeared to label President Obama a “tyrant” and Hillary Clinton one of many “hapless old harridans.” Burns Night in the Age of Brexit and Trump 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The night before our return trip, I sat in a near-empty Fulton County Stadium watching the hapless Braves lose to the Padres. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z Whereas a man on the road might be seen as potentially dangerous, potentially adventurous, or potentially hapless, in all cases the discourse is one of potential. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z After descending we continue on, haplessly peering into the mottled vegetation for animals in the last place they’d be — next to the bipeds’ walking path. From canopy walk to gator-filled waters, this Florida park offers wildlife aplenty 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Dolled up in a blond hairdo and slinky clothes, she spits obscenities at her son, his girlfriend and a hapless hotel clerk. Only God Forgives: No Absolution for Ryan Gosling 2013-07-18T09:45:42Z Mr. Shawn is as good a resentful, hapless victim as he was a resentful, hapless victimizer in “The Designated Mourner.” Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This is certainly the perspective of the divorce lawyers who soon replace that hapless mediator. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z But it’s only when two hapless burglars target his home that we see the true ugly underbelly to his character. My favourite Christmas film: Home Alone 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z But in their willful flatness many of the other performers come across as hapless on the one hand, or camp on the other. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z Attempts to procure ice cubes can transform the most dignified guest into a hapless burglar rummaging through drawers for loose gems. In the Kitchens of the Rich, Things Are Not as They Seem 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Those claims may surprise students — and teachers — who have long assumed that each poem harbors one correct meaning that poets try to hide from hapless readers. Stop dissecting a poem as if it were a dead frog 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Alex Anderson, the artist who created the cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, the flying squirrel and hapless moose who were TV fixtures in the early 1960s, died Oct. Creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle dies 2010-10-25T04:24:00Z But first, let’s hear what the panelists on Fox News’s “Outnumbered,” a show that pits one hapless man against four women, had to say. Bill O’Reilly at his most odious: Everything Fox News gets horribly wrong about rape culture and sexual assault 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z With a fanciful, skillfully written score, the piece presents a beguiling present-day story of a group of hapless archangels having trouble recruiting a young woman to bear God in human form. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z This play arose from the anguish, pain, and anger over the senseless horror that was visited upon 26 hapless children in Sandy Hook. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z But of course, the hapless characters in “The Blondes” don’t know that. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Except for Charles Dickens — who took time from writing novels to say of the hapless Haydon that “he most unquestionably was a very bad painter” — the gang’s all here. Review: Mr. Turner: A Sour Man With a Painterly Genius 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z A drawing showed an angry buffalo chasing a hapless human. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z Again and again, one of the hapless souls onstage will step up to the mike and lead a Dylan classic in a voice that suggests not thought, but deepest feeling made audible. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Platt’s sensational Elder Cunningham is a hapless ironist, who keeps assuming and discarding the voices he’s heard on television because he doesn’t trust his own. ‘The Book of Mormon’ on Broadway Retains Its Charms 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Surging, seething and breathtakingly tender, the overwhelming force of this orchestral backdrop befitted an opera in which fate plays puppetmaster to its hapless characters. BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-11-09T16:51:45Z In Ms. Woolley’s “Hip,” she portrays a hapless would-be male rock star and the almost cartoonish women he encounters. Theater Listings for Jan. 10-16 2014-01-16T18:35:23Z There are glimpses of Bridget in the writer’s quick wit and sense of the absurd — though Fielding exudes a considerably greater sense of control than her hapless heroine. Bridget Jones is Back in ‘Mad About the Boy’ 2013-10-14T14:44:34Z Chilindrina's hapless father, Don Ramon, was always late on the rent and trying to scrape together a living by taking all manner of menial jobs. Comedian Chespirito's work wasn't just laughs, it was also about class 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Their hapless father — named, naturally, Mr. Poore — is off in Alaska knocking on doors, trying and failing to sell encyclopedias. Trick or Treat: It’s Mom and Dad! 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z To test the contestants to their limits, actors are dispatched to pretend to be enragingly hapless trainees or annoying customers. TV highlights 22/08/2012 2012-08-21T19:00:00Z When we meet Sarah, she is a hapless waitress who seems far removed from the fierce warrior that Kyle insists she will eventually become. Why the "Terminator" series matters 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The genre then took off in the age of silent film, with Buster Keaton narrowly avoiding getting crushed by an entire frame of a house, Charlie Chaplin's hapless boxing and Laurel and Hardy's physical antics. A Brief History of Slapstick Humor 2010-10-18T08:00:00Z The other is a jinni from the Syrian desert, trapped inside a copper flask until a hapless tinsmith sets him free during a routine repair. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Unusual Immigrants in New York 2013-05-17T16:57:01Z The book’s hero, the hapless Albinus, is introduced into the story as a picture expert called in to consult on the case. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “There seemed to be an invisible barrier tied to a way of treating women as helpless or hapless beings,” Ms. Oliveros said. Rediscovering the Electronic Music Godmothers 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z Melissa McCarthy, playing him as the administration’s hapless Baghdad Bob on “Saturday Night Live,” made him hilarious. Don’t Let Sean Spicer Tap-Dance Out of Infamy on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z As in Cosby’s earlier novels, racism is portrayed as a source of bottomless pain for its victims — the vengeance-seekers in “Razorblade Tears” — and sometimes for its hapless perpetrators, too. Review | S.A. Cosby’s new crime novel is provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z When he was finally unmasked himself, he got 14 years for spying for Moscow, only to be traded for a bunch of hapless West Germans held there. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z It couldn’t be further in tone from “Something Rotten!,” a show-biz romp set in Elizabethan England, in which two hapless rivals to Shakespeare invent musical comedy. The Tony Nominations: Kings, Queens, and Lesbian Cartoonists 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z And I tried, haplessly, to date girls there. My non-addict wife 2012-09-30T13:00:00Z “Chasing Squirrel,” a burlesque caricature with feisty women and hapless men, served as a pleasant reminder that not all ballet choreography looks the same. Dance Review: Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2014-05-08T20:58:00Z But as its hapless vampires stumble into positions of leadership in the Vampiric Council in the current season, they have become perfect symbols for our broken, ineffectual political system. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The musical borrows much of its material and structure from the first novel, which chronicles Greg’s determined but hapless efforts to climb his school’s popularity ladder. ‘Wimpy’ or Not, This Kid Might Make It to Broadway 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z In May, the cast assembled in Tatel’s courtroom, where the Grand Inquisitor, in black cloak and tall hat, interrogated the hapless Galileo below the seal of the U.S. In ‘Galileo’s Torch,’ unlikely group of Washingtonians debate issue that resonates Men are portrayed as hapless virgins, and some leave women “intrigued but vaguely unsatisfied.” Roxane Gay’s powerful new story collection, ‘Difficult Women’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Some of the objects in the show were devised by amateur inventors like the hapless Mr. Henshall. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z Schumann wrote one opera, “Genoveva,” a dramatically hapless work with intermittently inspired music. | 'Faust': Botstein?s American Symphony in Schumann?s ?Faust? 2010-04-11T21:16:00Z |
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