Word: ageing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Merv Griffin. He canceled the party he was going to throw for me. I could forgive Merv anything. When you get that round at that age, you suffer enough just getting dressed...
...vast Three Sisters Ranch in the Arizona desert (October through May) or the Powder River Experience on the Wyoming plains (June through September). King, his wife Betty and other family members welcome men and women who aspire to the cowboy life. Many are from abroad; many are well past age 50. Some have recently bought horses--or even a ranch--without knowing much about either. When Ken Jelden retired at 70 after a long career with Calavo Growers in California, his wife gave him a surprise retirement gift: a week at the ranch. He mastered new roping skills, learned...
...struggling through blizzards, trying to find a way across the open water." He was thrilled by the Arctic, "one of the most unusual places in the world--the beautiful blue colors of the ice, the sparkle of the sun." Travelers of any age are welcome but must be in very good physical shape and willing to spend $25,000, the cost of the trip. Northwest Passage also offers less expensive ways to realize a polar dream, including a $6,000 ski-and-dogsled trek across Ellesmere, Canada's northernmost island. Adventurers travel through an expanse of mountains, fjords and giant...
...something back," he says. Signing on with Global Volunteers, the couple from Hudson, Wis., have jetted off to places they had only dreamed of seeing: Costa Rica and the South Pacific. Their favorite jaunt was to China, where they spent three weeks last year teaching conversational English to college-age Chinese students in the city of X'ian. "We would ask them what they wanted to talk about, and they would listen and try to converse," explains Bettie. The first questions, she noted, were about Michael Jordan...
...could base a drinking game on how many times someone makes a sweeping generational statement in this postcollege soap from Kevin Williamson (Dawson's Creek). Dawnie (Marisa Coughlin) is writing her anthropology thesis on the "second coming of age" of her "lost" demograph--sorry, "generation"--and the ensemble illustrates it, suffering romantic and career woes and showing how sad it is to be young and gorgeous in the city. Reminiscent of Melrose Place's earnest, unfortunate first season, Wasteland adopts Dawson's chatty self-awareness but lacks its flashes of sweetness and magic...