Word: frail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, after not having seen my friend for 18 years, I barely recognized him. He stood in the doorway of his two-room apartment in a sooty housing project. He looked frail, his thin face tanned but deeply furrowed. But his blue-gray eyes still sparkled. On a small table in the corner stood a typewriter. "It is the fifth in 20 years," he said. The police had confiscated the others in attempts to trace samizdat (underground press) articles critical of the regime. The harassment had brought on an ulcer complicated by other stomach ailments. After multiple surgery...
...clot or tumor in the brain, and prostate cancer that had spread to his liver. He was said to be under constant medical supervision and receiving large amounts of medication. While reports of Khomeini's impending death have proved to be erroneous in the past, he has seemed increasingly frail in recent appearances and has not been seen in public since June 26, when he was shown on Iranian television greeting a group of Revolutionary Guards at a mosque next to his home in the Tehran suburb of Jamaran...
With the Islamic Republic' s troops stunned by a string of battlefield defeats, the frail Ayatullah Khomeini grudgingly submits to "God' s will." -- Would peace between Iran and Iraq send oil prices skyward once again? -- Contra hard- liners threaten new battles in Nicaragua. -- An album of stark photographs from Ethiopia' s rebellious and famine- plagued province of Eritrea...
...profitable dream-mongering empire in movie history. By 1984 Lucas had produced five of the eight all-time top grossers. But that was a long time ago, in a land far, far away. Lucas' fantasies went murky (Labyrinth) or smirky (Howard the Duck), and his empire suddenly looked as frail as King Lear's. So Hollywood is closely watching Lucas' $35 million gamble on Willow. But will moviegoers watch? To a genre weakened by formula and familiarity, Lucas has brought little new, just a reprise of his Star Wars plot and characters in sylvan gear. His Luke Skywalker is Willow...
...Garner's craft and natural buoyancy enable him to escape the disaster, his co-star quietly goes down with the ship. Moonlighting's macho man lacks the hell-for-leather flamboyance that the historic Tom Mix gloriously possessed and that this frail fictionalization desperately needs. As a 1920s cowboy, Willis is strictly 1980s Rodeo Drive...