Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday evening I encounter Dick Morris on the 5:30 shuttle to Washington for his appearance on Larry King Live. He introduces me to his frail 86-year-old father, whom he puts his arm around, happy that he's come from Florida to keep Morris company. He's willing to talk (of course), but not about Eileen, because he doesn't "want to intrude on her interview." He's promised to protect her privacy...
...Nude is not in this show, and neither is Duchamp's even more famous The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (Large Glass), which is too frail to move from its abode in the Philadelphia Museum and is represented by a Swedish-made replica. Begun in 1915, the Large Glass is, as its title suggests, an elaborate sexual metaphor seeded with puns and techno-images. In the lower panel the nine sad little bachelors, mere tin soldiers in the game of sexual strategy, signal their desire through intervening bits of machinery to the floating "bride" above. As Freud said...
...first step in the six-hour operation was a caesarean delivery, during which the frail Cheyenne wailed as lustily as any other newborn. "I wanted her to keep crying so I knew she was alive," says her mother Alberta. Cheyenne soon grew still, however, as doctors lowered her temperature to less than 63[degrees]F to prevent neurological damage during the critical period after her own heart was removed and before her new, golf ball-size heart was in place. Not until the patient reached this state of suspended animation was it safe to make the surgical swap...
...case that brings Wyler into the series is, once again, a crime rooted salaciously in sex. Up for re-election, the Governor of California is murdered in bed with his mistress, and the suspect is a demure schoolteacher, Sharon Rooney (Missy Crider) who appears too Kate Moss-frail to have actually pulled any triggers. Frustrated when he's passed over for a promotion in the prosecutors' office, Wyler manages to grab the job of defending her. In turn, Hoffman's former associates recruit the young gun with the star-making case to head their firm while their old boss...
...failed great actor or a great bad one? But onstage, he relaxes a bit. He knows the spectators are creating their own close-ups, so he plays piano: softer and with nuance. He gets to the tiredness of Erie and to the semisweet-chocolate heart of this frail playlet, and transforms O'Neill's monologue into a ripe conversation with the audience. So again, go figure: Al Pacino, film star, was made for the stage...