They instruct you to under-reach and tailor your goals to dress a frail self image.
Indeed, once you get past the unsettling image of frail people doing manual labour, they believe this is the more dignified option – keeping the elderly active and giving them an independent income.
By the early '60s, Ditko was doing his best work for Lee at Marvel, and the 40-odd Spider-Man stories he illustrated (and often plotted), built around images of frail, twisted bodies pirouetting through space, looked like no other comics before them.
Gary Engels, a state investigator in Arizona, hopes that the images of a frail and skinny 50-year-old Mr Jeffs on trial may damage his formidable image, perhaps persuading some of the wives to testify against him.
That has fractured the image of a frail victim mistreated by the authorities.
Think of a pacemaker, and perhaps the image of a frail person stuck on the couch comes to mind.
The image of this frail woman dying in the Ritz, attended by a professional carer, is undeniably poignant.
The image of a frail and sickly rural retiree was a far cry from the strutting, imperious commander of the 1990s who was a monstrous figure to the Muslims of Bosnia.
"Despite the popular image of a frail and dependent older population," Mr. Matthews said, "there is a rapidly increasing number of men and women in their 80's and 90's who are living active lives and contributing their life experiences and talents as volunteers at hospitals, cultural centers, educational institutions and other community organizations.
The image of a frail and sickly rural retiree was a far cry from the strutting, imperious commander of the 1990s who was a monstrous figure to the Muslims of Bosnia and whose name is synonymous with the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 when Mladic's forces overran the Bosnian Muslim "safe haven" hill town, then methodically rounded up the males and murdered almost 8,000.
