Word: defenselessness
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...Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival gang, and 89 guests are parboiled. "Miraculously, the Congressmen and the judges came through the fire unharmed...
...That junk on television," Scott I fumed. "Sure, the good guys usually win. But that's not what grabs the audience. It's what the bad guys do. Kids learn how to mug the defenseless. How to use guns and knives. How to get high on alcohol and drugs. That's what they remember...
Because the world is like a "very had neighborhood at 3 o'clock in the morning," the United States must continue to arm itself so that it does not become a "defenseless old lady." Liddy said in his 90-minute speech...
...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...