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Degas lived until 1917, when--blind, brittle, and beleaguered--he died at 82.
Which, if Culturebox was illustrating a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, was it: that these two extreme of contrarian critical opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.
Few things bring me as much joy as the sight of my own swampy backyard, all leafless and brittle and dotted throughout with bright orange-red winterberries clinging to their branches.
Songs like "Tango: Maureen"[LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]--glib, brittle dialogue at odds with the exotic tango rhythms--are a reminder of such early Sondheim works as "Barcelona."
Flockhart, the brittle underweight neurotic, yet still somehow appealing, in a tense yet vulnerable way