Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Superior. The supreme and arbitrary Power that British kings once wielded over their helpless serfs is now wielded by you over helpless undergraduates...
...makes the audience care about them. Madjid's mother, Maika, bubbles over with the life-force that feeds and clothes her five young children, Madjid and the neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness portrays the conflict within the family more effectively than any verbal explanation of their condition...
...makes sure that the audience goes away appreciating basic human feelings, like friendship. As in Truffaut's 400 Blows, we do not condemn the boys for stealing or cheating. Rather, we appreciate their ability to bring energy and fun to the routine of poverty which renders so many people helpless and lifeless...
...belt, releasing her pent-up frustration at her own past abuses at the hands of her pimp. George stands there, crying, and submits to her rage and pain. When Simone stops, realizing how she's hurt him, she bursts into tears and hugs him as if he were a helpless and confused...
...Soviets continued to try to link the Chernobyl disaster to the dangers of radiation in a nuclear war. In Cologne, Yevgeni Chazov, a Soviet surgeon and Deputy Health Minister, warned that "the accident proved that medicine will be helpless if even a few nuclear bombs are detonated." Along with U.S. Surgeon Bernard Lown, Chazov received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Chazov's remarks, delivered before a meeting of the organization, drew a sharp rebuke from members of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Party, which supports nuclear power...