Word: frailing
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...first time since Israel began its bloody offensive on Gaza 12 days ago, the first frail signs appeared on Wednesday that an end to fighting that has left nearly 700 Palestinians dead may be near. Although details remain hazy about the Franco-Egyptian peace proposal that's serving as the basis of a possible truce, the initiative appears to have helped inspire Wednesday's minor miracle of a three-hour cease-fire in Gaza to allow aid workers access to what is being described as a humanitarian calamity there...
...letter that Apple's iconic executive, Steve Jobs, released Monday to quell concerns about his ailing health and increasingly frail frame - which recently caused a dip in Apple stock - had reporters across the country scrambling for answers. What condition could cause the "hormone imbalance that has been robbing [him] of the proteins [his] body needs to be healthy" and result in such dramatic weight loss? And in what scenario would that condition entail a "nutritional problem" whose cure is "relatively simple and straightforward...
...name it - they all hate me. And he told me, "Here I was sitting on a corner one day; it was my break time, and I was drinking coffee with a friend of mine, and out of the valley climbed an old Arab. He was very bent forward and frail, and walked slowly to us and said 'Here is my ID.' And we told him, you don't have to give us your ID; we didn't ask for it. And he said 'No, here it is, I want you to look at it. Look at it, I'm okay...
Channeling Henry Fonda's balky geezer in On Golden Pond (though he's robust where Fonda was frail), Walt is clearly destined for interracial rehab; the movie's story is the thawing of this great slab of mean. He warms to Tao, who could use some foster-fathering; to Tao's well-adjusted sister Sue (Ahney Her); and to their whole adorably folkloric clan. But Walt needs more than living among the Hmong. As a family elder tells him, "You're not at peace...
...talking. They usually involve Mr. Shi puttering around the house—hanging up good luck charms, reading the newspaper, and rummaging through his daughter’s room. Wang loves to show Mr. Shi’s heartbreaking vulnerability and fragility. In one scene, Mr. Shi, shirtless and frail, methodically straps a harness onto his back,and slowly pulls the cords to help him keep his curved, osteoporotic spine a little straighter. Most of these scenes are just short flashes of his day-to-day routines, but their telling nature makes the slow, drawn-out dinner conversations between father...