Word: frailness
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...despair that has gone before seems too familiar, Jenny's fleeting realization that love is the only salvation seems both easy and forced. The scene that brings her to this insight is a tender sickbed interlude between her grand mother and her ailing grandfather, but it is too frail to be entirely persuasive...
...there is an eminence grise among living American artists, that man is Clyfford Still. The history of abstract expressionism, the movement that did most to coalesce the once frail identity of American art, is unimaginable without his vast Wagnerian canvases. But 15 years have passed since Still quit Manhattan in disgust for a ten-acre farm in Westminster, Md., and during that time his execrations of the "arrogant farce" of the art world-its neuroses, its museums, its critics, and their failure to come to grips with his work-have not ceased to be heard. He is the Coriolanus...
...elderly, frail spinster Jane Marple who remained her favorite detective. Gifted with as many "little grey cells" as Poirot, Miss Marple also possesses an unpretentious village wisdom and homey psychological insight that make her Agatha Christie's alter ego. Although Poirot is gone, Marple survives for at least a while longer An unpublished manuscript in which she too passes on is locked in the Christie vault, along with the ultimate whodunit, Dame Agatha's autobiography By refusing to publish it during her lifetime, Dame Agatha has assured herself one last, suspenseful hurrah...
...they would like China to be: reasonable, flexible, nonaggressive (see obituary, page 30). With the Premier's death, China lost half of the remarkable team that symbolized the People's Republic both to its own people and to those outside. Now only Mao remains, mentally alert at 82 but frail, slack-jawed and slurred of speech...
Despite his frail physique, Chou was seemingly inexhaustible. Like many other leaders of the Chinese revolution, he liked to work through the night. Visitors to China, even in recent years, were often ushered into Chou's presence after midnight, finding him tireless and perpetually alert in conversations that lasted until daybreak. His wife Teng Yingchao, a prominent revolutionary in her own right, admitted that she was unable to persuade him to slow his exhausting tempo even after his declining health forced him to delegate some responsibility to his heir apparent, Vice Premier Teng...