Word: frailness
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When David Tom, a frail young Chinese immigrant in his early 20s, was first admitted to an Illinois mental institution in 1952, all he was able to say in English was "Me no crazy. This nuthouse...
...Court Judge John H. Hews ruled that Bouvia "does have the right to terminate her existence, but not .. . with the assistance of society." Three days later, Bouvia stopped drinking the liquid protein that was keeping her alive. Three days after that, although she struggled with all the strength her frail body could muster, an I.V. tube was inserted in her arm. It was replaced, on Christmas Day, with a nasogastric feeding tube. Since the force-feeding began, a 24-hour nurse and guard have been posted by her bed to prevent her from sabotaging the tubes. Bouvia's lawyers...
Deep in the entrails of a Rumanian castle, a malefic beast has been stirring for a millennium. Now it is 1941, and a platoon of Nazis have let the evil genie out of his battlements. On the side of Good, sort of, are a frail Jewish scholar (the great English actor Ian McKellen, sporting an accent that sounds like south central Iowa) and a preternatural Watchman (Scott Glenn), whose eyes go quilted when he gets really mad. With all these adversaries crossing swords, neither the Nazis nor the narrative stands much of a chance...
...Smithsonian Institution is the repository of national memory. In the celebrated Air and Space Museum, the frail craft that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., hovers near the command module of Apollo 11, which first put man on the moon. In the Museum of American History are the portable desk that Thomas Jefferson designed and then used while writing the Declaration of Independence, the original Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Md., and one of the first Teddy bears, approved by Teddy Roosevelt himself. Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park (Smithsonian Books; ($60) is a grand...
...this year, but the projected level, just above 9%, would be the lowest in France in ten years. Compared with inflation in the nation's major trading partners, especially West Germany, that level still is judged to be too high to avoid another devaluation of the frail franc...