Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...champion tried to cover up; the challenger clubbed him down again. Foreman gestured to Frazier's seconds to toss in the towel, but the champion somehow pulled himself up on the ropes and Referee Arthur Mercante signaled the fighters to continue. Foreman obliged by hitting the nearly helpless Frazier with a head-snapping right cross that put him down for the sixth and final time. Mercante stopped the slaughter at 1 min. 35 sec. of the second round. In the ensuing bedlam, Foreman shoved his way to Frazier's corner and told the fallen champion that "I respect...
...those who have never been addicted, this sort of thing may sound like olw-camp, soft-shoe style, particularly when the words are deprived of the deep adenoidal torque that Art Van Harvey, as Vic, used to put on them. But a true believer can be reduced to the helpless laughter of a hyena in a feather factory by some scenes. At one point, Vic is memorizing the opening ritual for his lodge meeting. Rush is checking and prompting him from a copy made by Miss Gregg, Vic's secretary. The following exchange takes place...
...script, which abounds in inane dialogue, is particularly vicious to women, who are portrayed as woefully helpless, weepy creatures who would surely perish without men to pull them through. The actors generally do better by the script than it deserves. Stella Stevens, looking well used but winning, is genuinely touching, Shelley Winters engagingly hammy. Gene Hackman, who seems to have the lion's share of the bad lines, nevertheless acquits himself very nicely indeed. There is one scene in which he is required to pray to God, pleading with him and admonishing him, that Hackman, against all odds, manages...
...most of his career he has been the antihero, borne along, as he puts it, "on the new wave of English writers -kitchen sinks and psychology." He was the funny but menacing brother in Harold Pinter's play and movie The Caretaker, the father who half mocks his helpless, brain-damaged child in the filmed version of A Day in the Life of Joe Egg, and the attractive cad in Nothing But the Best and Georgy Girl...
...that his plan called for surrender, McGovern said that present Nixon policies were surrendering our prisoners of war to endless captivity in North Vietnam, surrendering $250 million of tax money a week, and surrendering our decency, our ideals, and even our soul as a nation by bombing millions of helpless people and napalming little children...