Word: frailness
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...jolly lug, coping with crisis by wearing it down. In his O.K. new movie Delirious -- the season's second daytime-drama parody, after Soapdish -- he is a soap-opera writer who is knocked silly and dreams that he is a prisoner in his own show. The premise is frail, but Candy gives it his usual shrug-it-off assurance. No big deal. No problem...
...half-century ago, people perked up when Greta Garbo did the nurturing. Man, woman or boy, they were all frail things, dazzled by her strength and glamour; and she caressed every lover as if he were a child with a fever. Garbo made her last film in 1941, when Hollywood was called the Dream Factory; skeptics said it dressed up lies as art. So why -- it can't be only nostalgia -- do those old films, for all their soft focus and happy endings, seem truer than today's? Because the scale was different, smaller, more intimate. Films weren't fairy...
...most powerful person in the computer industry? Arguably it is the frail, bespectacled, boyish figure shown below, the essential computer nerd, William Gates, 35. His Microsoft Corp., which he co-founded two years after dropping out of Harvard, is to computer software what IBM is to hardware -- and now the two companies, formerly partners, are contenders in one of the industry's most important battles...
...would be death to the heavenly creatures on parade in PARIS IS BURNING, Jennie Livingston's thrilling documentary. They are the gentlemen of the Harlem drag balls. They wear frocks to die for; they vogue on the floor like Madonna dancers. A few have passed beyond show biz. A frail baby-voiced blond named Venus Xtravaganza says, "I wanna be a rich, pampered white woman," as she curls up in a tacky bedroom furnished only by her dreams...
Filsinger also said she hopes that a geriatric clinic will be located in the center, which would offer "a continuum of services for people who are frail...