Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works in her mother's umbrella store. She falls for the earnestly handsome automechanic Guy(Nino Castelnuovo) who ruins everything by being drafted. Before leaving for Algeria, he somewhat deviously impregnates her, perhaps to be sure she'll 'wait for him'. But his plan backfires when the pregnant, helpless Genvieve is married off to the rich, wolf-like diomand dealer Roland Cassard (Marc Michel). Guy, of course, is devastated, and also, in the logic of such things, returns to Cherbourg a cripple...
...enough to get people to do things his way. He needs them to see things his way too. But while Gingrich gained a following within a segment of the Republican Party, his message stalled with the larger electorate. Lately he's a one-man version of the helpless superpower. The Contract with America is a suspended agreement, and Gingrich has the kind of approval ratings only Timothy McVeigh can envy. It can't give Gingrich much comfort to recall that Joe Cannon ended badly, getting kicked off the House Rules Committee...
...almost expired with helpless laughter after reading Charlton Heston's angry letter denying Gore Vidal's comments [LETTERS, May 13] that the subtext of the relationship of characters played by Heston and Stephen Boyd in the film Ben-Hur was a homosexual one. Without meaning to, of course, Heston utterly confirms Vidal's assertion that director William Wyler told Vidal that Heston would "fall apart" if he knew about the homosexual subtext they conspired to feed Boyd behind Heston's back. All this behind-the-camera intrigue is rendered moot, however, if you just watch the scene...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team defeated the University of Vermont 18-3 yesterday afternoon, but it was never as close as the score implies. Harvard (4-0, 1-0 Ivy) extended its undefeated start by dominating a helpless Vermont squad...
...That helpless feeling has come back with a strange familiarity as I've watched Bob Dole tear through the Republican primaries. Dole, as I recall, was the guy to the right of Bush, the conservative we Democrats feared even more than Reagan's heir-apparent in '88. Dole might well be elected president, and there's not exactly anything I can personally do to combat that fact...