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...benefits are payable will gradually increase to 67. You can start tapping into your account as early as age 62, but that will reduce forever the amount of your monthly benefits. Also, half your Social Security benefits will be taxed if you and your spouse earn more than a certain amount each year, currently $32,000. Get a personal earnings and benefit estimate statement from Social Security by calling...
...exercise, but illness and injury can still strike at any time. "The importance of having the right insurance in place can't be stressed enough," says Satovsky. Americans over age 65, of course, receive most of their health coverage through Medicare. But it doesn't cover prescription drugs and certain other expenses. And if you eventually need nursing-home care, you can get coverage through Medicaid--but only after you've spent almost all your own money...
Liar's courage aside, certain couples do seem destined. It is difficult to imagine substitute partners for Fred and Ginger, Rhett and Scarlett, Roy and Dale. Would a benevolent fate have tossed together George and Dale? Roy and Gracie? I have a hard time picturing Bonnie and Ozzie. There's a wizened couple who travel in New York semi-literary circles who are both so poisonous, it is impossible to believe the gods would have allowed them to infect two others...
Breasts have never really gone away, as any two-month-old or longtime viewer of certain premium cable channels will tell you. And yet a heightened fascination with things bosomy seems to have infected the world of men's magazines--the general-interest sort, I mean. This is largely due to Maxim, the British import, which, in its year-and-a-half of American existence, has shaken the world of cigar love and five steps to great...
...somewhat more tolerant of other old friends. The worst he has to say about Lionel Trilling, whom he considers the most intelligent person he ever met, is that he lacked a certain political courage, taking refuge always in his favorite word, complicated. Everything was complicated, Trilling would insist, his emphasis lingering on the first syllable. Of Hellman, Podhoretz finds surprisingly pleasant things to say--she was a wonderful cook, she was great company, "playful, mischievous, bitchy, earthy, and always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented...