Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like other dictators of this age, Milosevic makes these calculations in virtual isolation. He rarely appears in public, never travels anywhere. He nominally consults an inner circle of perhaps 15, but his only true adviser is his ambitious, neocommunist wife Mira Markovic. "His pride at being a guy everyone comes to is huge," says a Western diplomat. "But his purpose is to throw people into confusion...
...AGE: 25 OCCUPATION: waifish British supermodel BEST PUNCH: Former Johnny Depp squeeze reportedly called Schiffer's engagement to magician David Copperfield "phony and tasteless," suggesting they were really in love with each other's fame...
...AGE: 28 OCCUPATION: tall German supermodel BEST PUNCH: Used recently rehabbed Moss as the prime example of a group of models who don't take their jobs seriously enough and seem to spend more energy on partying than posing...
...green grocer and ironmonger putter about their shop windows in the early morning dawn while the butcher hangs chickens with their heads down and eyes glassy. In the heat of summer, glass pint bottles full of milk stand on front steps waiting to be brought inside, and men of age with no visible signs of fitness sunbathe in the verdant parks with their white dress shirts folded neatly at their sides. In the dark of winter, office workers scurry through the misty, seductive rain...
...late 19th century, Henry Morrison Flagler and a few other characters of the Gilded Age decided that the harsh northern winters were severely cutting into their ability to oppress the northern masses year-round. Wearing all that wool, how could they be expected to exploit workers? Settling temporarily in northern Florida, Flagler and Co. moved farther south, eventually stumbling upon the small Barrier Island of Palm Beach. One hundred years later the island of Palm Beach is still where the mega-rich go to escape the grind of winter life in East Egg. Easily bored, they have gone...