Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happened again Saturday, with the Bulldogs whipping UPenn, 24-3, and Brown and Columbia losing to outside opposition. Holy Cross waylaid the Bruins, 34-24, while Colgate bombarded the Lions, 41-3. In an Ivy contest, Dartmouth hobbled a defenseless Cornell squad, 42-7, and remained unbeaten in League play...
...Blow Out is less scary but more skillful. One sequence, involving a murderous attack in a Philadelphia train station, tantalizes with portent and discretion. From outside a toilet stall, we see only the victim's feet fluttering beneath the door and then falling still, the limbs of this defenseless animal at rest at last. And twice De Palma exhibits his favorite technique to suggest confusion and resolution: the camera describes circles-four, six, a dozen-around his characters, ribboning them in place to force them to confront their destinies. The viewer must share their turmoil-feel vertigo...
...group is stronger; which is fitter? The young who demonstrated their moral energy?as well as their social clout, often enough?by avoiding the draft, by staying in college or heading across to Canada? Or the so-called suckers who got caught in the draft? (Were they stupid? Patriotic? Defenseless?) Those suckers passed through a physical and moral test that the others (however principled their refusal) will never know...
...Democrats are hardly defenseless: they control twice as many statehouses as the Republicans and thus have a larger say in drafting the new districts. In several one-man, one-vote rulings in the early 1960s, however, the Supreme Court decreed that districts within a state must be as nearly equal in population as possible. (An average district should now contain 519,532 people, up from 465,468 in 1970.) Thus the ease with which a state legislature can gerrymander* districts into odd shapes to preserve partisan majorities has diminished greatly. Yet there is still much room for mischief, and both...
...criticizing the ABC network's 20/20 program and Reporter Geraldo Rivera's use of the "ambush interview"-surprising a journalistic target on the street, with cameras turning. Even when a malefactor has it coming to him, a viewer is left with the impression of a defenseless person's being taken advantage of by privileged characters with mikes and press badges...