Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family farm was supposed to be endangered by the corporations that invaded agriculture a few years back. But they turned out to be helpless on a land they could not really understand, clumsy brontosauruses bogged down in rigid procedures. Relying on a labor force that lacked the farmer's single-minded devotion to the soil, they could not make a profit. One after another, United Brands, Tenneco, S.S. Pierce and other companies have retreated from the fields, abandoning some or all of their farm ventures...
...cast is large and largely helpless. Finch, a professional to the quick, has the decency not to look embarrassed, even when singing knock-kneed Bacharach-David soliloquies with lines like "Have I found Shangri-La/ Or has Shangri-La found me?" Liv Ullmann, practically impacted in makeup, smiles bravely; and there is a peppy song-and-dance number, kind of a Donald O'Connor comic turn, by Bobby Van, who is most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta...
...episodes here, selected from among sketches performed on 161 shows, not only reconfirm the warmest memories, but they revive the kind of deep, continuous and ultimately helpless laughter that is too rarely heard, the kind that makes the eyes water and the mouth slack at the edges from strain. It is laughter that for a time was always within Sid Caesar's power to give...
...girls - some of them middle-aged - who have not lived in this messy world, the book offers only irony and scorn, the scorn of the combat veteran for the rear-echelon soldier. Yet Author Weldon feels a kind of terror in the presence of the scarcely helpless woman of the future, as projected by Scarlet's daughter Byzantia. Condescending to her mother's generation, Byzantia sees men as the symptom "of a fearful disease from which you all suffered" With Byzantia, "nothing is hidden, nothing is feared. " Everything is discussed - that is, "rendered harmless" - and then "simply forgotten...
...warps in which Matthew appears as an American adventurer soldiering in Spain in 1836, and as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 100 years later. Repeatedly the author writes a scene that the reader is expected to follow in good faith, only to have Matthew, a chronic and helpless liar, admit that nothing of the sort ever happened. Then the incident is retold in terms of richer and yet more baroque untruth...