Word: hopelessness
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Many a kids' movie has met its downfall through cute but hopeless child actors. Luckily for "A Little Princess," incompetence is largely confined to the minor characters. Still, although Liesel Matthews is fairly good as Sara, she fails to maintain the delicate distinction between a girl that everyone falls in love with for her unaffected friendliness, and an ordinary Goody-Two-Shoes. Halfway through the movie, one simply gets tired of hearing her breathy voice and watching closeups of her preadolescent Molly Ringwaldesque lips, parted in sensitive confusion at the evils of the world...
...turn in her trajectory: as a figure of brittle jubilation when celebrating her "o'erhasty marriage" to her late husband's brother; as a sinner afflicted with a harelike trembling when confronted with Polonius' death and the "black and grained spots" of her soul; and as a creature of hopeless, heartbreaking maternal solicitude when she realizes, simultaneously, that she has been poisoned and that her son is doomed...
Richard is also a hopeless anachronism, still mired in the swamp of post modernism. (His latest novel has 16 unreliable narrators.) The guy still snorts coke. He doesn't know it's the nineties...
...poll of listeners clearly supported keeping Liddy on the air. Sure enough, those calling in to support Liddy would be innocent and good people. They watched the aftermath of bombing with the utmost curiosity. As long as nobody they knew or loved had fallen victim, lying helpless and hopeless under the collapsed building, the entire event was merely news only for them. They might even find the non-traditional, unheard-of rhetoric on the air waves interesting. Truth be told, however, to some who view our world in different eyes, these talk shows offer nothing but encouragement, agitation and signs...
Little chance, that is, until Lopez's court-appointed defense attorney decided that his client's case was hopeless enough to warrant a bold gamble. In a move that is about the closest an attorney ever gets to throwing a Hail Mary pass in the final two seconds of the Super Bowl, Jack Carter conceded that Lopez had indeed broken the law-and then went on to argue that the law itself was wrong. Thirty-seven months and two appeals later, the obscure public defender persuaded five Supreme Court Justices to overturn a law that several hundred legislators...