Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joshua Waitzkin won many trophies in his early years as a New York City chess prodigy, but he was always, and mainly, a kid. He loved baseball, basketball, reading, horsing around -- normal boy stuff. He also sat up nights pondering the 64 squares. He watched gaunt gladiators play speed chess for drug money in Washington Square Park in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He studied with Pandolfini and played tournaments under the loving, sometimes jealous, eye of his journalist father Fred. By his eighth birthday, Josh was the top-ranked player of his age. Today, at 16, he still...
...white-knit blanket; he was slumped in an easy chair with the telltale mask strapped to his face. A string tied to the middle finger of his left hand was connected to a clip on the tubes running from two cylinders labeled CARBON MONOXIDE. The body was gaunt, the skin yellow-green. For the past few months, Mansur had been too sick to drive and carried a morphine pump around with him to combat the pain. "He was in hell," says longtime friend Donna Cady. "He would cry on the phone." She adds, "I know that when he put that...
...what appears to be a sick voyeuristic obsession with that deteriorating body, Frank quotes "eye-witnesses" who claim that Burke "continued to prepare food while he was deathly ill" and "appeared gaunt and sickly in the months preceding his departure" even though he never disclosed his HIV status. One cannot help but wonder whether Mr. Frank believes that AIDS becomes an issue only when it is "visible...
Burke never informed anyone at work that he was HIV-positive, several of his co-workers said, though they said he appeared gaunt and sickly in the months preceding his departure. One co-worker said Burke made repeated trips to the Harvard-affiliated medical clinic frequented by many HDS employees...
...made his final appearance on the stage of the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera Ballet, after a performance of his staging of La Bayadere. He needed dancers' support to stay upright. He was gaunt and emaciated, but the style was defiantly intact -- he was swathed in a huge gold-and-scarlet cape -- and so was the fiery heroism...