The menu is so expansive and arcane that a diner can encounter bad luck as easily as good and wind up with food that disappoints, if only because it's so peculiar.
In a short race, anyone can make a ruinous mistake (lose an edge, hook a tip, choose the wrong line) or encounter bad luck (equipment malfunction, snow squall, gust of wind).
The fictional couple at its heart — star-crossed lovers and sometime artistic collaborators — encounter bad luck in various forms, but Chico and Rita also have the good fortune to mingle with real-life legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk and the great Cuban conga player Chano Pozo, a crucial figure in the era's mixing of styles and genres.
But they leave out the most painful and perplexing factor we encounter whenever terrible things happen: bad luck.
Instead of talking tough to those on who have encountered economic bad luck, let's acknowledge that awful things happen to people in this world through no fault of their own.
But Strasburg encountered some bad luck in the sixth.
A young woman pauses on her journey in a nondescript, weary town and encounters a run of bad luck, some of it brought about by her own bad decisions.
(Scott) ★ 'WENDY AND LUCY' (R, 1 20) In Kelly Reichardt's latest film, Michelle Williams plays Wendy, a lonely young woman who encounters a run of bad luck while drifting through Oregon and Washington with her dog, Lucy.
They hoped that the monitors would record fin whale songs, but they had the bad luck to encounter whales that were feeding, not singing.
McGee spent half of his training camp away from his usual gym "Victory MMA", instead preferring to stick with his Ultimate Fighter coach, Chuck Liddell at The Pit. McGee defeated McCray by submission in the second round with a rear naked choke, making him the winner of the Ultimate Fighter Season 11, despite all the difficulties and bad luck he encountered on the show.
It would help us (and them) to know whether their latest encounter was just plain bad luck, as in "Casablanca," or a conspiratorial setup — but that information is classified.
