Word: frail
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...ABSURD, fairy-tale premise of the story works in Kosinski's novel because the author, like the Grimms, writes caressing, witty words while he brazenly plunders his frail theme. Ashby's direction of Kosinski's script slips at times from wit to slapstick but generally maintains a simple, even tone reflective of his hero, the boob-tube boob...
...lurk in every nook and cranny of contemporary civilization. Even fluorescent lighting, he says, may, in some weird way, weaken the muscles. The book, billed as a "crash course in protecting your health from hidden hazards of modern living," is entitled How to Survive Modern Technology. Anybody with a frail heart might not even survive the book...
...devout Muslim who was briefly jailed under the Shah's regime, Moinfar works hard but has frail health...
Watching and listening to the frail old aesthete on television, former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan told the House of Commons last week, was like hearing "the rustle of dead leaves underfoot. I could hear those accents of someone from the 1930s...
...demonstrators started shouting in Tehran's streets. There was an encouraging precedent. Last February when anti-American protesters seized the embassy, Iran's government moved quickly and efficiently to bring them under control. But the U.S. should have been more aware of how frail the Bazargan government was. The Administration was simply too optimistic, and it did not have sound enough intelligence information...