It's the subconscious and inflammatory nature of Steinbeck's writing that makes the viewer join in on the bashing of this woman, punish her existence, snicker at her mishaps.
Failures won't necessarily happen at a greater rate than they have on government spacecraft; private space companies have at least as much incentive as NASA to keep mishaps at a minimum, but given the scope of vision of some of what's been proposed, both by NASA and by private companies, there may be a point where great risk becomes impossible to avoid.
A successful 10-foot par-putt at the penultimate hole kept him three ahead and he avoided any mishaps at the last.
A spate of crumbling walls and other mishaps at Pompeii, including an episode late this summer when a supporting beam collapsed at the so-called Villa of Mysteries, has put its preservation problems under a starkly unflattering spotlight.
"He had some mishaps at 2 and got hurt.
Two other nuclear submarines, H.M.S. Triumph and H.M.S. Victoria, were involved in mishaps at sea in 2000.
(The big smash is foreshadowed in joking references to mishaps at Sam's store.) But Mr. Greenberg doesn't really rise to that task, either.
Another Belgian, Olivier Theyskens, had some mishaps at his show on Monday, which began inauspiciously 90 minutes after it was supposed to.
However a series of mishaps at the site in Astravets are raising concerns over safety, particularly in Lithuania whose capital, Vilnius, lies less than 31 miles (50km) from the site.
The sensory alarm sounded, and the police arrived, along with the owner, to find a dishevelled college kid frantically scribbling notes about artwork and opening hours.No such mishaps at SAM, which was most of the way through a 36-hour opening spree (a trendy thing for museums these days).
