Word: frail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...female comics are a Miss Milgrim and a Miss Vogel, who play Mrs. Frail, a fashionable lady of little virtue and less money, and Miss Prue, Angelica's country cousin. The one is bright and fatigued; and the other, buxom and spirited, sports a North Country accent that would warm the cold heart of Albert Ramsbottom...
...Friend. "Living is my religion," she says. She practices it currently on California's rugged coast. She has lived there for more than a year, including eight months in the Big Sur region in a squalid cabin with five cats and five dogs. The cabin was a frail barque adrift on a sea of mud, and sometimes when Joan opened...
...stubborn men, stiffened by an antagonism as ridiculous as it was real. One was Franz-Josef Strauss, 47, West Germany's bull-bodied, bull-tempered Minister of Defense, who for all his bulk has a skin thin enough to invite puncturing. The other was Der Spiegel's frail, blond Publisher Rudolf Augstein, 39, who has seldom missed a chance to play the matador to Defense Minister Strauss's bull...
Racked by Asthma. In person, according to one acquaintance. Robinson was "far from handsome in the classic sense. An enormous head, with goggle eyes and a whopper jaw, was balanced on a frail body by means of a neck of extreme tenuity; and stooping shoulders with a long slouching gait did not add anything of grace or beauty." Yet grace and beauty were Robinson's hallmarks both as a man and as an artist. He was racked by asthma throughout his 44 years, but he let no sense of pain enter his paintings...
Inness was a frail epileptic who had only one month's formal training in his life; yet he was, along with Homer, Eakins, and Ryder, one of the few great painters in the U.S. in his day. He was a master of catching the subtle whims of nature, and he could bathe the most or dinary scene in poetry. While more fashionable colleagues strained for panoramas -the vast valleys and rugged mountain chains of a newly self-conscious America -Inness was quite satisfied to paint whatever lay just beyond his own backyard. Last week the Paine Art Center...