Word: helplessly
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...summoned, Shady delivers the funniest diatribe in recent rap history. Over an upbeat snare reminiscent of Billie Jean and a woolly sax torn from the Coasters' playbook, Shady sums up his appeal: "Little hellions/ Kids feeling rebellious/ Embarrassed their parents still listen to Elvis/ They start feeling like prisoners, helpless." He says this at top speed with the clarity of Henry Higgins, over music that makes you want to get up and dance. In the Without Me video, he does a jig dressed as Osama bin Laden. Slim's art is offensive, but offensiveness...
Caro's obsession, on the other and safer hand, has produced three classic works about power, four if you're counting his book on Robert Moses. I certainly am. We are not talking about an obsessive-compulsive disorder--some helpless yearning that erupts in incessant hand washing, the counting of numbers, words repeated over and over. All words and no play makes Jack a murderous boy. We are not talking about polar bears either. Young Tolstoy's brother told him to stand in the corner until he stopped thinking about the white bear. But Tolstoy was entrapped by fear...
...wish to leave yourselves and your loved ones helpless before violent criminals, that is your decision. However, do not to presume to deprive me of the right and means to defend my family...
...King may be more helpless when it comes to Iraq. Jordanian officials detest Saddam Hussein, but the King is opposed to any U.S. war against him. Ordinary Jordanians are sympathetic to Iraq and suspicious of U.S. designs in the region. Western diplomats worry that a U.S. war against Iraq could provoke political unrest undermining the pro-American Hashemites. Moreover, Jordan is dependent on Saddam's largesse for its economic survival, thanks to a deal by which Saddam sells the Kingdom all its oil at a 60% discount from world prices and takes payment in the form of imports that keep...
...defenseless and pitiful," grumbled a Los Angeles man. "It's very misleading to portray him as if he doesn't know how he got into this mess." But an Oklahoman saw something different: "That is the most perfect picture of a trapped rat I've ever seen--bug-eyed, helpless and hopeless." A woman from Florida saw a regretful expression and mused, "If only Arafat acted as contrite as he looks." And a Vancouver, B.C., man derided "the reverential cover portrait" as "missing only a halo to present Arafat as a distinguished statesman...