In the past, when audiences had no choice about the media they consumed, the traditional approach was to cast audiences as the damsel in distress, saved by hero brands with a magic solution.
For Sanders, programs designed to help only those in severe economic distress save taxpayers money but the savings are achieved at a great moral and social cost.
To rescue an Amelia Earhart in distress, to save a yachtsman with appendicitis, to succor a cat up a pole or a man down a well, the world acts with unanimity.
He started a storyline where, while he was interviewing someone, a scripted accident would occur, leading to Helms leaving the interview seconds before the person in distress was saved by The Hurricane.
On Lickerish Hill is another story that invokes the rhythm of fairy tales, and specifically Rumpelstiltskin, but with a twist: even if the damsel in distress is saved, there can be no happy ending, because her husband is mentally unstable and abusive.
UNICEF and other UN agencies are working with the committee to alleviate distress and save lives.
Games developed by the company Du Sautoy co-founded, Mangahigh, include the recently launched Wrecks Factor, in which pupils have to correctly factorise quadratic expressions to answer ships' distress calls and save their crews.
Good at saving damsels in distress and sorting out bad guys.
In the near future, however, an entirely different breed of creatures could be saving humans in distress.
There are now more than 20 boats in the command, and firefighters aboard them are being given a wider degree of tasks, like saving surfers in distress off the Rockaways and patrolling the eastern and western shores of Manhattan.
