Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, they are helpless before more than the Player's guile--and know it. During the second act of the play the two speculate on the nature of death, comparing it to being inside a lidded box: "Life in a box is better than no life at all. . . You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking--well, at least I'm not dead! In a minute someone's going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out," Rosencrantz says...
...Perhaps every mob commits rape in a way. Anybody who has ever seen a mob in action senses its latent sexuality-the collective panting, the empty ecstasy. Even at the outskirts, the voyeur participates. Eventually he may run or protest, but for at least one long moment he is helpless to move...
...most helpless casualties are 87 million sheep and 14 million cattle that have been left high and dry on 74,000 ravaged farms. Some farmers are selling $20 sheep for as little as 10?. Others, trying to keep their stock, are buying hay at five times the regular price. Ranchers in southwest Queensland have sent some 350,000 sheep to healthier pastures in the north; in Victoria and South Australia, hardened farmers with tears in their eyes have shot more than 100,000 aging animals they had bred for years. Sums up Cattleman Geoff McLeod: "We have got the backside...
Interminable scenes of Lianna alone in her bare apartment are highlighted by the strains of sentimental love-songs. Director Sayles heightens the effect by shooting from above, making the character seem trapped and helpless. Neither insightful nor original, the work is fundamentally boring. Sayles heightens this effect too, one hopes unintentionally, by avoiding any striking or colorful shots. Like the eating of the peas, Lianna is not open to reason, and its content, ultimately, is no big deal...
...given, and devote their efforts to reversing the cancer cycle once it has started--not preventing it from starting. Rather than investigating whether cigarettes, saccharin, asbestos or other hazards should in fact be banned--or going further and lobbying to ban them--such researchers seem to feel helpless to challenge the cancer-causing lifestyle...