Word: haggardly
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...CAST is superb, bouncing through the material with energy and humor. Laura Kenyon is convincingly haggard as the aging Kay Goodman, and she is beautifully counterbalanced by Krista Neuman as the ingenue Dorothy Flynn, who goes from boring broad to blond bombshell the instant she takes off her rhinestone glasses with pointy rims. Of course. And in the lead role of Buck, Scott Bakula chews on the endless cliches with a masculine earnestness that brings to mind Montgomery Clift, Victor Mature, and that prime-rib of cynical beefcake, William Holden...
...haggard face of homelessness is changing. It is growing younger, more feminine. A new class of homeless men, women and children is showing up in the shelters, people whose reasons for homelessness are less obvious but no less disturbing. The new destitute often confute the stereotype; they do not sleep on park benches or push around shopping carts bulging with their worldly goods. On the street they may appear neat and purposeful, with a place to go and work to be done...
...first of the late-night stalwarts that I met was an elderly women, looked about 60, whose L.L. Bean-like clothes belied how haggard she looked. When I first saw her I thought she seemed someone who might start asking me about where I went to school and how old I was and other such pleasantries...
...after his bag was stolen at the dental clinic, Andrei met me at the train station. He looked haggard, as if he were suffering from insomnia or prolonged illness. His lips were trembling and his voice broke: "Lusia, they stole it." He spoke with acute pain...
Cronin, meanwhile, cuts a curious figure as the poet; she neither looks or acts much like a man. The two argue over love, death, beauty, and haggard old age, but the passions and emotions conveyed by the two actors are less than riveting...