Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinary spirit-stricken shack, if only because of its impressive track record. Before the movie begins, it has already abducted our hero's son, destroyed his marriage, and killed his aunt. Not bad for an inanimate object. Then, before 10 minutes has elapsed, it manages to lure our helpless author back to the spooky edifice in order to finish...
Perhaps in its original Spanish The Tower of Glass flows more beautifully. The book is an intellectual excercise, a challenge, not an escape into a verbal paradise. In this profoundly, horribly real work Angelo uses all his art to capture a life as convoluted and shifting, helpless and oppressive as his own prose: this intellectual challenge is not an ivory tower but The Tower of Glass...
...about real people--guilty and innocent, aware and ignorant, helpless or in control of the events of the War. And these people constantly surprise us with their candor...
While harried streams of undergraduates rush to get to classes on time, one small circle of students stands in a ring in the Yard, oblivious to their surroundings. They are helpless--addicted to a little-publicized habit...
...other hand, unfortunately, a court victory did not translate into housing. While Columbia merely appealed the court's decision, the tenants remained in limbo--just as hopeless, helpless, and homeless as they had been for seven months already...