Word: helplessly
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...looks for scapegoats. In Perot's mind, nothing that has ever retarded his many causes has been his fault. Whether it is a band of shortsighted General Motors directors, government officials callously abandoning soldiers in Southeast Asia or journalists scrutinizing his background, Perot routinely views himself as the helpless victim of dark conspiracies. Is the collective memory so short that we cannot recall July, when, at a high point, Perot inexplicably closed his campaign with the brutality of a plant manager pink-slipping loyal workers at Christmas? Have we forgotten that without warning Perot stranded the millions who had poured...
...image that has stuck most stubbornly to Dan Quayle from the 1988 campaign is that of a deer caught in the headlights: a helpless thing frozen in the path of destruction. In Houston, however, Quayle labored -- with some success -- to transform himself into a snarling attack dog, on the model of such G.O.P. vice-presidential nominees as Bob Dole and Spiro Agnew. Before the largest prime-time TV audience he has addressed, Quayle abandoned his attempted oratorical gravitas and delivered a withering attack on what he has called the "liberal cultural elite," which he has targeted to help distract attention...
...considered one of the animal kingdom's hardest workers, are proliferating faster than they can paddle. According to a Colorado environmental group, Wildlife 2000, their numbers have swelled to more than 6 million, maybe as many as 12 million. Animal-rights activists have crippled the fur trade, and killing helpless animals for sport is no longer fashionable. The result is that these mindlessly multiplying creatures are chewing up more trees than anyone can count. It is foolhardy to suggest that the anti-fur-coat folks should now retreat and give thousands of women -- not to say the environment -- a break...
...arms upraised in triumph; the private one shows Mark Witherspoon, a medal hopeful in the same event, thunder down the track for 30 meters, then suddenly collapse into a sickening heap, his tendon ruptured. On the scoreboard, the finish was played and replayed while Witherspoon lay alone, helpless on the track...
...Americans condoned the violence, but many shared the rioters' shock and amazement at the trial's outcome. After all, the grainy videotape of Rodney King's 81-second beating at the hands of L.A. cops looked like a clear-cut case of police brutality against an unarmed and helpless citizen. A flawed state prosecution, a shrewd defense and a white suburban venue had conspired to produce the stunning outcome: acquittals for four officers. When federal authorities indicted the four last week on civil rights charges, it was widely believed that the defendants would not get off so easily the second...