Word: frailness
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...seemed ownership had invigorated the country, made a frail democracy more stable. By most reports, the Chilean system continues to thrive...
...There's something eternal in the basic narrative,' says John Neumeier, artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet ... 'A woman who's very pure and trusting and in the end very strong, and a man who's made a great mistake' ... It's a simple enough story: Giselle, a frail young peasant girl, [goes mad and] dies after she finds out that her lover Albrecht?who is from a much higher rung on the social ladder?has deceived her ... Prima ballerinas want to dance Giselle. It's a part that can make or break careers ... 'It's considered the same...
...detective in The Final Solution is almost certainly meant to be our old friend Sherlock Holmes, although Chabon never names him. Chabon's Holmes is long past his Baker Street prime: at 89, he has become a frail, eccentric, beekeeping retiree. Mystery comes looking for the aging detective in the form of a mute boy, 9, and his pet parrot (the symmetry is neat but not too: a boy who can't speak and a bird that can). Before long, the parrot is missing, a man is dead, and Holmes is back in the game...
...spectacle of Arafat's last days offered a glimpse of the man he had been reduced to. One of the last images he left to the world--the brief video clip showing the Palestinian leader, shriveled and frail, wearing blue pajamas and a knit cap before he left the West Bank for medical treatment in France--did not reflect the stylings of Yasser Arafat the revolutionary. The stubble-faced Arafat owned civilian clothes, but he donned his few suits and ties only to move around incognito. When he appeared as Arafat, he always wore crisply pressed military khakis, a black...
...world have managed to attach their destiny so firmly to the destiny of their people. Arafat was one of them. It has become virtually a habit of the mind to think of Arafat when thinking about the Palestinians. It will take a long time before the world forgets the frail face wrapped in the traditional Palestinian white and black kufaya. That face has brought the Palestinian cause from beneath the rubble to the center of international attention. Despite controversies that have become defining characteristics of his public career, very few deny Arafat’s crucial role in raising international...