Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Again. That time of year again. The body stiffens, the bones grow cold, and we are standing helpless inside the door awaiting the arrival of our monsters. Each year we perform this ritual, following the Druids in their annual practice of calling forth the terrifying spirits of the age in an effort to dispel them. These are not children-no diminutive, sweet-voiced ghosts and witches reaching timidly for corn candy. They are the real monsters of our times, and they are not so easily appeased. Brace yourself. The moon is hidden in the clouds, the house as quiet...
With the two teams tied, 2-2, in the final seconds of the first overtime, tiny Electa Sevier picked up the ball at midfield, dribbled 25 yards and launched a perfect chip pass to a streaking Kelly Landry. The junior then blasted the ball past a helpless UMass goalie to give the Crimson a 3-2 advantage with just two seconds left in the first overtime period...
...common thread running through all this is a sort of dormitory determinism: we are poor little goats, born helpless and nasty into a world we never made, and we can only do what we were destined to do. Golding's earnestness in portraying this feral landscape is obvious on every page of his books. But the highest art is achieved through surprise, the intimation of a pattern established and then inspiringly broken, the fusion of particulars creating a light in which the familiar looks prophetic. Against such possibilities, Golding must be judged on his accomplishments and pronounced a master...
...Barbra Streisand talks, she gets lost in the trackless deserts of her burgeoning vocabulary. "Creativity is like a part of perversion," she will begin, "like a thing that goes inward for emotion, not responsively, because intellect is bad for what I do." Such thoughts always bring her to a helpless "Know what I mean?" And no one ever does. But when she sings, everyone knows exactly what she means; even with a banal song, she can hush a room as if she really had something worth saying...
...maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1,000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...