Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prize most highly. There is dynamic control that can achieve a real piano, and a multi-levelled sound far beyond the crude polarity of loud and soft. Gone are the days when the winds thought so much of themselves and so little of the strings that the latter were helpless before the barrage of their sound. This year the strings are playing out and assuming their proper role with well-deserved confidence. In spite of flaws the HRO produces a good sound, with a greater sense of ensemble than many professional orchestras...
Eventually, Hepburn realizes that she has allowed herself to become a helpless victim of The Mob-trapped in her apartment, the phone line cut, the neighbors gone, friendless, sightless and alone. Whereupon the most malevolent criminal advances on her, knife in hand. She throws some of her husband's hypo in his face, temporarily blinding him. Then, to provide the great equalizer, she extinguishes every light in the house. Hunter and prey slowly circle each other, waiting in the dark. Suddenly he remembers the one overlooked illumination and opens the refrigerator door...
...disbelief. She is immensely aided by the heavies: Jack Weston, Richard Crenna, and Alan Arkin playing his first straight roles-triple portrayals of a Peter Lorre-like psychopathic killer, a white-haired father and his smarmy son. With virtuosity, Hepburn and Arkin collaborate to revive an old theme-The-Helpless-Girl-Against-the-Odds-that has been out of fashion since Dorothy McGuire and Barbara Stanwyck screamed for help in The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. If Hollywood is still counting money, it ought soon to be back in style...
...knock, when it comes, transforms the room into a kind of torture chamber, in which the welts are raised by laughs. The put-on is a game in which the victim does not know either the rules or the stakes. The victim appears more helpless and the game more sinister in that two or three men usually tease, bully and mystify him. The Caretaker, for example, is an extended put-on: the old tramp Davies is led to believe by the two brothers, Mick...
...kill all the white people in Southampton, Virginia. Styron, with historical justification, isolates Nat from his murderous followers and portrays the man's pure hate; it is calm, intelligent, and unrepentant. Others, says Styron, "hate but with a hatred which is all sullenness and impotent resentment, like the helpless, resigned fury one feels toward indifferent Nature throughout long days of relentless heat or after periods of unceasing rain." Nat, however, had known the white man and had been cultivated...