Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hush starts out as the love in Manhattan affair. Boy takes girl home to mother. Mother shows unnatural affection for son. Mother greets naked girlfriend of boy for the first time in boy's room. Mother manipulates birth control so that son can give her a grandchild. Mother pleads helpless to get the son to move back home so that she can be near him--and can off the offending new queen bee as soon as she delivers...
...Leave him" and "Should've stabbed her when you had the chance"'s, followed by righteous indignation after confronting your male peers in the morning about the illnesses of patriarchy. Better yet, call the boys up in the middle of the night and lecture them between bouts of helpless glee...
...that he could not find the time to create any three-dimensional characters in such a long film. None of the characters break through their stereotypes. Leonardo DiCaprio is the street-savvy pauper who attracts Kate Winslet with his wit, good looks and carefree lifestyle. Winslet is the helpless rich girl who feels trapped by the rigid conformity of her class that seem to govern her entire life. Their love is a for-bidden one since she has already been betrothed to a man she does not love...
...think we came into the game maybe too confident," Harvard co-captain Megan Basil said. "It seemed when things weren't going our way people just got really frantic. We were a step slow to everything; it was like we were helpless. It was just mass chaos. It was just terrible...
...Powers," and already overdone Star Wars metaphor. Of course frivolous mankind gets ripped up in its ignorance as the power plant blows up, killing many of its staunchest supporters (who were working at he plant) and leaving a symbolic power plant itself. The citizens' unquestioning radioactive cloud over the helpless town...