Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everybody's favorite, so I feel helpless in recommending that you don't attend this concert...
...month-old government of Premier Carlos Arias Navarro seems increasingly helpless in the face of Spain's mounting problems. In the country's four northern provinces, for example, Arias has been unable to check the terrorism of Basque separatists. After the small secret ETA, the most radical of the Basque groups, recently shot five policemen, the Guardia Civil retaliated by sweeping through the areas around Bilbao and San Sebastián. Madrid admits to the arrest of 200 suspects, but a group of Basque lawyers claims that the number jailed totals 2,000. In the past month...
...intention is basically problematic, its execution hopelessly confuses the issue of individual responsibility for the deportation. The hero is, in fact, a thoroughly self-indulgent overprivileged youth, whose motivations fluctuate between a need to shore up his self-esteem by playing at heroism and a desire to seduce helpless Jewesses to whom he appears as a savior. Once Paul has induced Jeanne to accompany him, he promptly makes a pass at her. What more auspicious moment for commencing a beautiful relationship than immediately after Jeanne has seen her family loaded onto a deportation bus, her apartment looted by anti-semitic...
...A.B.T. American dancers cannot help resenting the publicity that Russians seem to get effortlessly. They feel that newcomers are taking roles that they, the company's veterans, have been working toward for years. "Americans have nothing to sell but their dancing," says Cynthia Gregory, 28. "I just feel helpless. No matter how well we dance, we never get that kind of recognition." Ted Kivitt, 32, who has shared a dressing room with Baryshnikov at Manhattan's primitive City Center, says: "The timing has been bad for me. It was my time for getting recognition. It is like taking...
Paul Newman grabs hold of a young girl just as the stairway she is standing on springs open and collapses away into infinity; a firefighter hangs on to the shell of an elevator as a helicopter lowers it ninety stories. One is perfectly helpless in the grasp of scenes like these...