Word: helplessly
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...cheap oldster jokes at their own expense. Their latest show, Road to Nowhere, for instance, is set inside a community center where the group pretends to be elderly workers, singing We've Got to Get Out of This Place by the Animals and Neil Young's Helpless, among other tunes. The message is clear: there are many still-working seniors who don't have the luxury of playing golf and watching their 401(k)s grow. Much of the humor that is a big part of their theatrical approach comes courtesy of Bob Cilman, 51, an accomplished artistic director...
...seem that developing nations are helpless in fighting the drain. Increasing monetary benefits for professionals to match the terms of developed economies is not an option for many affected countries. Increasing restrictions on emigration will not be effective either unless there is also a restriction on travel. Even if it were to work for a period, the global consensus is that a closed-off system will not help a country develop...
...pearl-calypse Now,” while a homeless man explains the cause of a mysterious rash of murders perpetrated by killer oysters, the audience is treated to scene after scene of helpless victims being bitten death by an appetizer. As the director of the film pointed out, “The strangest part of my weekend was spending four hours gluing things to oysters...
...1940s Shanghai, lovable vagabond Sing (played by writer/director/star Stephen Chow) accidentally sets off a war between the murderous Axe Gang and the residents of a quaint slum called Pig Sty. The latter are revealed to be not quite as helpless as they seem—an unusual number of them turn out to be Kung Fu masters—and wild fight scenes break out, with more than a little help from computer graphics and wire suspension. Sing, whose delivery is more Bill Murray than Jet Li, is caught in the middle—should he suck...
...deepest mysteries; in a sense, how nature, like Japan, had been brought to its knees. Yet it did not take long for the realization to sink in that the splitting of the atom not only gave people no greater authority over nature than they had before, it proved how helpless they were when handling natural forces. Since that time, there seems to have been a general divorce of human life from other natural phenomena. It is as if people concluded that with atomic chain reactions nature played a trick on the world, and is no longer to be trusted...