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Word: hopelessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head for figures to make a killing in Las Vegas, he ends up believing his brother would be better off with him than in the asylum, and fighting, on principle, for custody. Yet Hoffman's meticulously observed performance makes it clear that Ray's is truly a hopeless case. Yes, he could become a kind of living pull toy for his brother, flapping and clacking in his wake. Yes, they could continue playing what they have played in this film: a comedy of frustration that has its bleakly funny moments. But a cure, restoration to full human function? That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Irish intensity that Bono and the boys want us to believe imbues their Celtic Christian Consciousness. I don't doubt that life is tough in Ireland, but U2 music is produced for maximum movingness effect that is achieved through lots of driving thumping beats, plenty of references to a hopeless, endless search (for sincerity, it seems), and ripping guitar riffs interspersed at the right moments. One is tempted to suggest that Bono lighten up and smile for a change of scenery. If Bono could invent a barometric measure of intensity, he probably would expect that his howls and grimaces would...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Where's Rock's Sincerity? | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...could hardly be more wrong. Medical researchers have determined that up to 75% of all cases of impotence stem from physical problems, most of which can be treated. As new types of remedies, ranging from drug therapy to surgery, come into increasingly widespread use, impotence is no longer a hopeless condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: It's Not All in Your Head | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

From that point, Harvard's head was stuck on the block, hopeless to stop the Quakers...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Shake Down: Quakers Rip Gridders | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...distortion. Anyone who tries to flatten the whole peel of an orange can imagine the difficulty. The features of a globe cannot be transferred accurately to a flat map. If the shapes of continents are correct, the sizes are wrong; a system that is accurate at the equator is hopeless at the poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Shape of the World | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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