Word: weaknessness
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Why is it that the "bad guys" can always unite in strength, while the "good guys" never can? One of the reasons is our fanatical loyalty to the concept of states' rights, in which both groups associated with law-lawmakers (politicians) and law-enforcement agencies -are willing to pay...
It was to the portrait of his friend, Monsignor James Turner, however, that Eakins brought his fullest powers. From the thoughtful, chin-in-hand pose and the bookish sophistication of the pincenez to the compassion, intelligence and ever-so-subtle weakness spelled in the cleric's features, Eakins crystallized...
CRAZY OVER HORSES, by Sam Toperoff. "Horses, horses, horses, crazy over horses," the old song goes. Not quite as repetitive but equally obsessed, the zealous author has transformed a lifelong weakness for the ponies into an oddly winning novel-memoir.
George Ill's illness, say Macalpine and Hunter, reads "like a textbook case," His first severe attack occurred in 1788, when he was 50 years old, and lasted for seven months. Starting with acute abdominal pain, weakness of the limbs and the classic discolored urine, his symptoms progressed through...
The Mozart String Quintet in G Minor K. 516 followed Schumann and was a big improvement. The addition of Isidore Cohen, who played well all evening, bolstered the violin sound immensely and the two violinists were very competent. Again, however, the piece got off to a slow start. An opening...