Word: haggards
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...president Al Rosen have made several stupid trades, leaving Martin with an ever-shifting roster and not enough of what he needed: pitching. The constant hounding from players, and especially from Steinbrenner, made Martin a very unhappy man, and in the past few weeks his photos revelaed an appallingly haggard face. It was all too much...
...haggard figure leaning against a lamppost outside a branch of Paris' famed Drugstore bore so little resemblance to the familiar newspaper photograph that no one even gave him a second glance. Yet for more than two months, thousands of police had been combing through much of France looking for a single trace of him. Then early last week, with authorities suddenly hot on the trail, Belgian Millionaire Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, 40, was released by his captors in a frenzied panic that contrasted sharply with their coolly professional capture of him 63 days earlier. Dropped off in suburban Ivry...
...time Kirchner painted his self-portrait in conscript's uniform, France had also experienced-from the other side of the trenches-the horrors of total war. But nothing by a major French painter in those traumatic years resembled Kirchner's paroxysm of self-pity-the haggard artist displaying the raw (but fictional) stump of his amputated painting hand becomes, as the nude in the background makes clear, an allegory of castration as well as loneliness and fright...
...brown hair. Best is his voice, which he uses like a virtuoso, rasping out some lines, snarling others like Burgess Meredith, or shooting up into a terribly British falsetto a la Rex Harrison. He conveys the tremendous nervous energy trapped inside him, which, unable to escape, manufactures a haggard lethargy; but here again the production seems unsettlingly close-to-life: Is it Simon Bruhl feverishly bored by the drying up of his creative juices, or John Wood feverishly bored by the obviousness of his role...
Modicum of Progress. During the final 36 hours of the meeting, haggard and dispirited delegates shuffled from conference room to conference room seeking some small patch of common ground upon which a final communiqué could be based. The resulting document, while it conceded a modicum of progress, expressed the South's "regret" that "certain proposals for urgent actions had not been agreed upon...