Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh, tornados up from all around, whirling and curling toward that white dot in the sky, hanging and helpless, dead. But it takes on a strange power, that ball, for it sucks everything in. The cloud rushes into it like the tiny capsule that once spewed out the universe and wants it all back, and takes it, in one horrible gulp, one awesome moment. An explosion of silence...
...minutes into the game, one of the Amherst fullbacks misplayed the ball, and Tom Hsiao charged around him and fired an unassisted score past the helpless goalie...
...Time was something that had been preying on his mind for a long time, he says, as a result of the puritanical atmosphere he grew up in, in a Methodist orphanage in North Carolina where he and the other children "had religion pumped into every orifice of our little helpless bodies, and of course everything about sex was verboten, it was dirty, it was sinful, it was guilt-ridden...
...needs to reinforce his manhood by slaughtering helpless animals is probably reinforcing what was never there...
...friend. "He wants to be taken seriously." Tom is so miffed by critical scorn that he has started a widely advertised critics contest, inviting the public to have a go at the spoilsports who "sarcastically attack the films they love" and soliciting pity for film makers "who feel so helpless when all of their work . . . is destroyed by some inflated critic smugly showing off his intellectual superiority...