A review of his December 20 , 2001show at Portland's Crystal Ballroom expressed concern over his appearance and performance: his hair was uncharacteristically greasy and long; his face was bearded and gaunt; and during his songs he exhibited alarming signs of "memory-loss and butterfingers".
McCarthy's alarming characterisations bring back memories of 1960s British children's television, of Billy Bunter, the fat adult child with his squeaky voice, gorging on cream puffs.
This alarming lapse of collective memory has seemed to me to be worth pondering — the fact that such a great, hard-won advance of justice could have been lost so completely that almost no one knew it had ever been made.
He's a little sore, but there didn't appear to be anything alarming, like the loss of memory.
Eventually, that dependency can make itself known through weight loss, intense paranoia, memory problems, and particularly alarming aggressive and violent behaviour.
An alarming number of adults no longer share memories like mine.
Starting the most routine chores on a confused computer is often interrupted with rude beeps, belches and alarming (and befuddling) messages like "fatal error" and "cache memory failure".
Calls for censorship, excessive prison sentences, attacks on foreigners: are these alarming manifestations of totalitarianism really an appropriate tribute to the memory of the Princess of Wales?
Martha's memory and mental functioning are declining at an alarming rate, and she's received a diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
