Word: frailing
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...also not been lost on the Clinton White House that the Bush-era recession and frail recovery were blamed on rate hikes engineered by Greenspan. In the next nine months, Clinton must decide whether to appoint him to a third consecutive term as chairman. Greenspan might like that. Enough to soften his reluctance to reduce rates? If not, there are others on the Fed who are less reluctant. "I don't think there is going to be a recession,'' says vice chairman Alan Blinder, a Clinton nominee who thinks job creation is as important a mandate as Greenspan's focus...
...twenty-five years do rather shape the mind, don't they? I'd have thought you'd be far better off agreeing you'd served your stint, and time to find pastures new." Whatever disappointment Tim feels has been assuaged by the love of Emma Manzini, a beautiful, emotionally frail musician half his age who has agreed to live with him. After all his years of spying and secrecy, Tim thinks of her as "my self-imposed security risk, my new openness, my one-girl glasnost...
...chapter describing extreme ectomorphy bears the title "Stingless Mosquitoes." Sheldon describes the lankiest men as "little male mosquitoes, frail waifs of the night...
Video has been one of the instruments used by Egoyan to explore the ways in which people interact. "I think," he says, "that human relationships are a lot more frail and much more tentative than films make them out to be. In most films, people just get together and make connections, things happen. I've never been comfortable with that. I think it's much more realistic to show how precarious and rare the meeting of two people...
...pages; $30) describes a hardworking idler, a Scottish Calvinist who remade himself as a romantic and (four days out of any seven) a convincing bohemian, a smothered son who remained boyish all his short life, and an invalid who lived a life of arduous travel and physical adventure. (Another frail, literary, boyish adventurer of the time comes to mind, and though R.L.S. and Theodore Roosevelt seem never to have met, they probably would have enjoyed each other's company...