Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear-cut rule to limit debate. That year eleven Senators filibustered against President Woodrow Wilson's proposal to arm merchant ships, precipitating a famed presidential denunciation: "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible." Under Wilson's angry urging, the Senate adopted Rule XXII, which provided that cloture could be invoked by two-thirds of the Senators present and voting...
...systematic and deliberate denial of human rights. Our time has known in full measure the tragedy suffered by countless human beings over the face of the globe who, deprived of their liberty without accusation, without trial, upon nothing but the arbitrary fiat of a sovereign government, have been helpless to challenge their detention in a world forum...
...closet, he is powerless to unwind himself from around her little finger. For, as one of the actors puts it in a formally informal prologue to the double-bill, if Law is justice without temperament, Woman is temperament without justice, Entangled in the web of either, Man is equally helpless...
...trouble lifting his eyelids, let alone eight-ounce gloves. Except for Joan Blackman's sweater, there is precious little to open anyone's eyes in this re-botch of the 1937 movie about the seamy side of the fight game. Between bouts, Presley Elviscerates a few helpless songs, moos over Joan, and twists like Little Egypt. Gig Young as a blarneying promoter and Lola Albright as his "fiancée" try to beat some brains into the picture but the script resists successfully...
...fairness, the acting was quite good: Anne Hescock turned in a very fine performance as the helpless mother; and the whole production was very smoothly run. Malcolm Tarn's serts and special effects fulfilled Andrews' unusual specifications more than adequately; indeed, the two-headed baby, itself, was done with such grisly realism that one almost suspected it was an actual specimen taken from the Cohasset Home for Incapacitated Infants, which one must pass in order to get to the Music Circus from Route...