Word: succumbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flaky favorite of Richard who flits about with a brightly colored silk scarf. Kristin Gasser is superb as the forlorn and lonely Queen to Richard who suffers from "nameless woe." Gasser is particularly effective in her final departure scenes with Richard. Jennifer Burton, Diane Paulus and Caroline Bicks occasionally succumb to overacting and have yet to master the art of walking like men, but are strong characters overall...
...despair. One small remem brance of that sunny season that has yet to succumb. Steven Spielberg's summer hit Back to the Future is still playing at the Sack Charles, and we need it now more than ever...
...England Journal of Medicine article called "Anatomy of an Illness," Norman Cousins, then the erudite editor of the Saturday Review, described how he had cured himself of spinal arthritis by adopting a healthy mental attitude, laughing a lot and taking vitamin C. Other diseases, Cousins implied, might also succumb to positive thinking. The article struck a responsive chord. It was reprinted in other medical journals, supported by letters to Cousins from some 3,000 doctors, and eventually expanded by the author into a briskly selling 1979 book of the same name. Despite complaints from other doctors who studied the Cousins...
DIED. James Martin Frustaci, 17 days, the third of Patti and Sam Frustaci's twelve-week-premature septuplets to succumb; of cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of hyaline membrane disease, which afflicts many premature babies, including all the surviving Frustaci infants; in Orange, Calif. One of the seven, a girl, was stillborn; another died of lung disease in his third day, and another girl is not expected to live. The other three are said to be "showing daily improvement...
...Smith's second album (or second point five Hatful of Hollow contained only one side's worth of original material) shows once more how quickly a band can succumb to it's own worst tendencies. Their latest, Meat is Murder, rails against all of Morrissey's petoutrages; nasty schoolmasters, abusive parents, and carniverousness. The title track epitomizes everything wrong with this record album. With the mooing of cows in the background (electronically processed to sound like singing whales) Morissey says...