Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treacherous, the other is brutal. The assassination at the end seems like unfair retribution because only one of them is on the receiving end. Mikey and Nicky should have been a movie about friend ship and betrayal and a kind of cosmic, comic stalemate. Its own helpless indulgence is not just the movie's undoing. It becomes, instead, its subject. Jay Cocks
...because most of their mass is below the surface, continue to move east, the damage will be held to a minimum. But shifting winds could still bring the oil ashore, fouling beaches and causing massive ecological damage. The spill has already driven hundreds of sea birds ashore, bedraggled and helpless. The oil could also threaten humpback whales, which migrate through the affected area, and imperil the already endangered gray seals that winter off Nantucket. But of greatest concern is the threat to the Massachusetts fishing industry, which employs some 30,000 men and has been slowly coming back after...
...faith that the outbursts of the '60s did in fact change something, that the demonstrators did not go back to the traditional values of bourgeois society; but it offers no hope for an immediate revolution. The characters are touched with a delightful madness, but their lunacy is about as helpless in the face of the establishment as it is hopeful. Their illusions are all these refugees have to sustain them; but only the distant future offers a way out of the twisted present...
Impressive freshman Dave Silk opened the game scoring at 11:12, when he deflected an O'Neill point drive past a helpless Petrovek. At 12:19, Bob Boileau made it 2-0 with a backhand flip between Petro's pads, the finish of a nice play set up by Mike Eruzione's fine rush down the left boards...
...ailing Mao grew increasingly helpless to halt his wife's machinations. When summoned to Mao's sickbed, the hardhearted Chiang Ch'ing at first refused to interrupt a poker game with her cronies. Later she tried to murder him and following Mao's death, she then plotted the assassination of China's new Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng...