Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Those poor Washington wives, as the style pages are always reporting, lead powerless lives of frustrating invisibility. Ah, but they are watching, watching, watching and, it appears, getting ready to write books. The latest tome will in fact be called Washington Wives, a "real-view, behind-the-scenes" novel that is now being written by Maureen Dean, 40. The wife of Watergate Defendant John Dean is a stockbroker living in Beverly Hills (and John is an investment banker). She already has one book to her credit, 1975's "Mo": A Woman's View of Watergate, but insists that...
...that’s where these fantasy movies, despite their darkness, shine. We have to keep up the attempt to right the wrongs of our country (or restore balance to the force): we may be young and seemingly powerless, but so were Luke and Leia. And for that matter, so is Harry Potter. So are the hobbits...
...police officers standing guard to ensure that a human being died a slow death while her family watched in horror and was powerless to do anything to help. Was this the U.S. in 2005 or a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s? Alan W. Garett Corpus Christi, Texas...
...murder in their eyes. Though Richardson has the showstopper part, Holm is the class act here. With his finicky mustache and sad, knowing eyes, he poignantly deadpans Des' coaled passion for Ruth. Des alone knows what her obsession with David will lead to. Ever the decorous Englishman, he is powerless to stop...
...We had police officers standing guard to ensure that a human being died a slow death while her family watched in horror and was powerless to do anything to help. Was this the U.S. in 2005 or a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s...