Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hears in his travels of people making precisely those kinds of tough choices, and finding fulfillment in them, and he wishes society would honor them more. "I can't accept," he says, "that we're helpless to save our families and our society without some new federal program or regulation." As individuals and through voluntary associations, he says, paraphrasing novelist Flannery O'Connor, we must push back as hard as the age that pushes against...
...support, that they are getting the education and the training they need. The guys that impregnate them are no goddamned good! I am very disappointed in our spiritual leaders. They have let us down on this. They have ducked this one. They talk about helping the needy, loving the helpless. These babies are our children! These are the least among us! You can't just turn your back on these babies! They are already here." New York delegate Barbara Lee Diamonstein Spielvogel says her enthusiasm for Bill Clinton has been dampened by his signing of the bill: "The idea...
...would always check the footwear of the nurses to make sure they were wearing sneakers. I wouldn't want them to slip and fall on the way to the rescue. But the first time... trying to point with my head where the pop-off was...the feeling of helplessness. I've never been helpless...
Hernandez, an environmental-protection specialist for the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, describes his daughter as a gentle soul. One afternoon they went to look at tidal pools together. The tide had come in, stranding hundreds of sea cucumbers. Amber spent the afternoon rescuing the helpless things. "She was a happy girl," he says. "I don't know what happened." He adds, "My message is to love your kids as much as you can, because you don't know what's going to happen...
...really, the end of the world is what "Purple Noon" brings to mind, a desperate era in which violent hatred and adoration amount to the same thing, where one person is interchangeable with any other, and most characters are, like Marg, the helpless victims of the machinations of stronger or more clever people. Yet "Purple Noon" never seems gloomy or disapproving of it's protagonists' mutual assured destruction. The potency of the film is undiluted by moralizing or even the sense that the story is being "told" from a certain point of view at all. The story of Philipe...