Word: agedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The aged John Huston filmed The Dead -- the last of his 37 features -- in great serenity, just before he died last summer. In it he set forth his affection for the writer he said he loved best and, paradoxically, for the Ireland to which he exiled himself for the midpassage...
In the half-century since then, feeding the world's hungry has become an accepted part of Western foreign policy, sometimes for political gain but often as an end in itself. Many people consider it morally wrong not to give food to poorer countries when the West has so much...
This is no country for middle-aged men, Captain Midlife has concluded. Or middle-aged women either, he adds hastily, a person for all seasons. Too much is expected of middle age, too much self-assurance to accommodate the too much power. Better to be chomping on one's salad...
McGanney does quite well to quote my comment about Anne Frank. Let me explain. I had played the same middle-aged British pun-mixing snob in six shows running. Playing a German Jew whose family dies at Nazi hands presented a challenge. Its being "conservative", for me, made it "experimental...
The faces of these old horse soldiers were lined, and stories were written on the lines. Traces were visible of more than a random share of scars and broken noses and of skin reddened by weather and bourbon. Their bodies had stiffened, but hands, forearms and shoulders remembered easy strength...