Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says University of Massachusetts Public Service Professor Ralph Whitehead Jr. "Baby Boomers are highly skeptical of institutional tools. They believe in J.F.D.I.--just frigging do it." And even if charity concerts have not proved to be the most efficient or speedy way to channel money to the poor and helpless, for many Baby Boomers joining hands and swaying to the music of a megarally evokes the good old days, when it was possible to have a social conscience and fun at the same time...
...heat like a hostage; a city of victims. It's a filthy zoo where the animals have two legs and the media is the kids outside, squealing and giggling at the vicious capering of the beasts: "Woman explodes in subway station, film at eleven." The people are numb and helpless, the police impotent, the scum of the earth triumphant. The city desperately needs a hero, a savior--but the Batman vanished years...
Both Labor and Likud have had to concede control over religious issues that inhibit the behavior of the largely secular nation, such as halting public transportation and the national airline on the Sabbath. Without the religious parties to form a Parliamentary majority, pre-unity governments were helpless: in 1976 the Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had to resign in the aftermath of a tiff with Orthodox leaders about breaking the Sabbath...
...Dunster production. the actors fail to enunciate, to interact, and to grasp the meaning of their lines. The audience is left helpless...
...most Americans, smiting Libya's Muammar Gaddafi certainly felt good: taking up his "line of death" dare, double-daring him back, winning a public slapping match, sailing away. Yet, now what? America might seem just a bit less like a helpless giant, but could a breezy flick really be expected to chasten Gaddafi? And the sight of Army choppers kicking up dust in a foreign bush was disquieting, an eerie evocation of Apocalypse Now. In Ronald Reagan's two-front muscle flexing last week, the images and the reality were hard to sort out. Power, yes, and the will...