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...Benchley's "attempt to bring life to what is rapidly becoming a legend. The literal-minded," warns the author, "will complain that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true." The problem is not one of accuracy but of familiarity. Benchley's frail chronicle offers the standard stories of Hollywood's old rebel, who pursued independence the way Sam Spade sought the Maltese falcon. Defining the difference between himself and most everybody else, Bogart used to claim that the world was about two drinks behind. Benchley, with his arch collage of pictures...
Photographer Walker Evans died three weeks ago today, Thursday, April 10. Two days earlier he was in Cabot Living Room discussing his life and work in Martin Perez's South House seminar. "Lives Examined." A frail-man with a hoarse, halting voice and poor hearing. Evans seemed physically older than his 71 years especially considering his mental alertness, thoughtfulness, and eloquence...
Douglas looked thin and frail; his left arm hung useless. The old vigor was not there: his eyes at times seemed glassy, fixed in another realm; his voice was thin, almost inaudible, and he occasionally stuttered. Asked if he had left Walter Reed without his doctors' permission, the Justice sat silent. (Douglas had obtained an overnight pass, then refused to check back into the hospital...
...Objectivity of tone?" Ross scoffs. "There's lists and lists of phony centenarians." "Have you ever seen a centenarian?" Norris adds. "I've seen three. They're incredibly frail. You're astonished that they live till breakfast...
...Giant Killer. He hardly needed such help. Even Daley's staunchest foes had to agree that he won on his popularity among the city's voters, not just because of the machine's tactics. The opposition had attacked Daley's age and frail health (he suffered a stroke last spring), the scandals of his administration, rising crime and deteriorating public schools. But most Chicagoans hold an abiding admiration for Daley and went overwhelmingly for the status quo. Explained former State's Attorney Ben Adamowski, a onetime critic who endorsed Daley this time: "When the ship...