Word: defenseless
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Given the historical context, it may seem nigh impossible to overstate the repressive prejudices of Johnson's time. However, that is precisely what Sackler has done. Most of Johnson's personality has been removed from the playwright's Jack Jefferson, making him more defenseless and unblemished than Johnson's staunchest supporters ever claimed. Sackler's character has none of Johnson's sensual excesses (and only one all-suffering white wife, drearily enacted by Jane Alexander). The ironic sense of his own destiny which allowed Johnson to cheat and compromise his way to personal security is switched to Jefferson's stereotyped...
...pours down, our loved ones deftly plucking the last packages of cigarettes from our nerveless hands. We are to spend almost two weeks aboard ship. The cruise sponsor, the Institute for New Motivations, has decreed that we will be without tobacco, subject to endless lectures and exhortations by psychologists, defenseless against encounter-group leaders and a hypnotist who is all but guaranteed to free us from our habit. A few fling matches and even treasured lighters into the Hudson. Others are caching cigarettes throughout the ship...
...bearing, stride and dignity "that has formed a bond between us . . . I realize that the life of this unknown stranger-probably an enemy-is worth a thousand times more to me than his death. I should never quite have forgiven myself if I had shot him-naked, courageous, defenseless, yet so unmistakably...
...with a .30-06 hunting rifle. The zoo's director, Jack Marks, was appalled at Adams' death and shocked that anyone would have shot the lions in revenge. "The lions reacted as you or I would if someone invaded our home," he said. "An attack on a defenseless animal caged in a zoo is the product of a sick mind." Over $1,000 in spontaneous contributions has come in to the zoo, more than enough to replace the two lions, and another $1,000 has been sent as reward money for the capture of the lions' killer...
...group. There are 280,000 of them in Tokyo, 300,000 in Los Angeles, 500,000 in New York City, 700,000 in London, and more than a million in Mexico City (including strays). And they are all "doing it"-on sidewalks and park lawns, against fire hydrants and defenseless city tree trunks. In Manhattan recently, one proud brownstone owner was on his knees watering his few flowers when he suddenly felt his bald pate being used as a fire hydrant. When he leaped up snarling at the dog, its owner whipped out a police badge and threatened to arrest...