Luban explained that the CIA began developing its torture techniques in the 1960s, when it created the KUBARK manual to train its agents to render subjects passive and helpless by inflicting accumulated, intense pressures upon them.
"The Town Hall Affair" places Mailer in the center of the action, and reframes it as his psychodrama: the would-be dominant male rendered snappish and helpless by the women he seeks to corral.
McMurphy does not respond, and Chief realizes that he has been rendered helpless by a lobotomy.
In Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players are accused of repeatedly raping an unconscious 16-year-old girl who was either drunk or rendered helpless by a date-rape drug and was apparently lugged like a sack of potatoes from party to party.
She left her job several years ago to care for her son, Erik, who was rendered helpless by a sniper's bullet in Iraq.
Across the way, Anthony Thompson, a Navy medic rendered helpless by a truck bomb in Iraq, was patted lovingly by his wife, Ivonne.
Wake Forest (4-2, 2-1) was rendered helpless by a defense that had two weeks to think about its problems against Virginia.
Partway through the visit, the robots turn on the guests; the staff in the control room tries to halt the mayhem, but is rendered helpless by a power shutdown.
This helps their case, but so does the widespread resignation that politics and government are inefficient and helpless, a view propagated by the right on a daily basis.
Whether it is hiring, purchasing, financial controls, information technology, workforce management, budgeting, real estate, equipment, or logistics, the executive is rendered helpless by an army of administrative minions with all the authority and none of the accountability.
