Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is why their extreme longevity and constancy as a group is appealing, indeed amazing. Though on Monday night their faces were drawn, wrinkled and gaunt, the similarity of the feel of the group and their music to the way it was 30 years ago is startling. As if to drive home this point, they opened the concert with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," one of their earliest and best known singles. They proceeded to mix and match such established favorites as "It's Only Rock and Roll," "Start Me Up," "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Honky Tonk...
Tran Khuong Dan, a construction foreman from Hanoi, was shocked when, in 1975, he finally saw his elder brother in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) after a 21-year separation prolonged by the Vietnam War. Gaunt and pale, the brother displayed symptoms that were all too familiar to Dan. The brother, like their father, was addicted to opium. "All around me," says Dan, "there were drug addicts." The habit eventually led to his father's death in 1976 and his brother's the following year...
...just come through a brutal series of chemotherapy sessions (battling a recurrence of the cancer that had first struck him when he was 23), but was eager to do what he always loved--talk about TV. Walking into the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel, he looked gaunt and thin, a baseball cap covering his bald head. It took real guts to show up at this sybaritic show-biz haunt so boldly announcing his illness. But for Tartikoff, it was a statement. Not of some corny TV-movie sentiment (How brave!) but just about the proportion of things. These folks...
Father Louis, who once did time for refusing to answer grand jury questions about his connection to a reputed gangster named James Napoli, wheels his gaunt, empty-eyed brother into court, kisses him on the forehead, then takes a seat and hugs or kisses family members. There is almost as much kissing as there are nicknames. But once, when there was no seat, Father Louis stormed out of the courtroom and reamed a niece: "Where am I supposed to sit? This is a dumb family...
...Stewart replied, "I don't think you'd find me very interesting these days." He had always been meticulous in presenting himself to the world; now, with Gloria gone, the masque was over. He stopped playing Jimmy Stewart. In a recent news clip, painful to see, he was bald, gaunt, liver-spotted, nearly unrecognizable. Yet he waved, as airily as possible, to the camera--an act both reflexive and heroic...