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This amorous fencing match is continually interrupted by a farcical gallimaufry of gulls, lechers, tricksters and cynics. Some of their names indicate their foibles: Scandal, Tattle and Mrs. Frail, a succulent baggage of seeming accessibility who hopes to bed her way to wealth. Thanks to the brushstroke acting skill of John McMartin, the drollest portrait of all is Foresight, a doddering astrologist so fervently absorbed in his zodiacal predictions that he fails to notice that his wife is cuckolding him under the age-old sign of Venery...
...boxes heavy with ravioli, cannoli and napoleons-gifts from Ella's eager supporters. The campaign also forced reflection and, surprisingly in a year marked by corroding cynicism, strengthened some correspondents' faith in the political system. As Los Angeles Bureau Chief Richard Duncan reported: "Candidates are human and frail, and none will save our country singlehanded, but they are generally a clear measure more thoughtful, able and honest than the professionally apathetic citizen who refuses to vote for the 'lesser evil...
...Wreck of the "Hope" (circa 1822). Friedrich was inspired, at first, by reports of early expeditions to the North Pole, all of which failed. But the image he produced, with its grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bark of human aspiration crushed by the world's immense and glacial indifference. "The ice in the north must look very different from that," Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia is said to have grumped on viewing this picture. He was right, though it scarcely matters. Friedrich's shipwreck...
...main propaganda theme of the anniversary was the need for unity-understandable in light of the uncertainties facing China. Chairman Mao did not show up for any of the proceedings, feeding speculation that the 81-year-old leader was too frail to withstand the strains of a public appearance...
Missouri's Hungate stressed that the article was based on a pattern of presidential misconduct rather than on isolated acts. Conceding that "men are human; humans are frail," he said that "a consistent disregard of the law" was involved. Typically, Hungate gave a homespun example of the difference: "If a man is driving in his car and he crosses the center line, that is not grounds for a whole lot of punishment ... but if he crosses the center line 15 times every mile he drives or if he insists on straddling the center line all the time, then...