Word: 80th
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VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington. Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction. Through April...
VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington. Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction. Through April...
Wood burning in the late '80s is no more sensible or righteous than mountain climbing. There was an old gent in my town, died a couple of years back, who split and stacked huge piles of wood well past his 80th birthday. He had plenty of money and an unused oil furnace, but wood splitting felt right to him, made sense. For a time, during the trendy days of wood stoves, he was a hero. After wood stoves lost their vogue and he continued to split firewood, he was thought mildly eccentric. Then he died...
...timing of Powell's resignation appeared to be dictated primarily by the approach of his 80th birthday on Sept. 19. The slender, bespectacled Virginian, who underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1985, has continued his renowned six-day workweeks, with an occasional half day on Sunday, but apparently was afraid he would not be able to keep up the pace much longer. Said he, simply: "For me, age 80 suggests retirement...
Fenerty carries on every play from scrimmage and finally scores late in the fourth quarter on his 80th carry. But he collapses from exhaustion after that play, and the rest of the Crusaders refuse to kick the extra point until Fenerty is back on the field...