Word: codger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that standard, Montana must be a codger. Since his 34-9 and 28-3 displays against Minnesota and Chicago, the Bay Area has never loved him more. Esiason won most of this year's quarterback awards, but Montana has no peer at the moment. Along with Walsh's brain and Montana's arm, a 49er composite features receiver Jerry Rice's hands and Roger Craig's legs. The handiest all- around back in football, Craig is one of three ex-Nebraska runners on call. "It isn't just that they're sound fundamentally," Walsh says, "it's that they love...
...photographic reproductions that were spreading art's pernicious messages through popular magazines. Hypocrisy was the order of the day. Thus Albert von Keller's lubricious portrait of a naked woman crucified bears the pious title Martyr, and all those nude beauties frolicking around that white-bearded codger represent Lovis Corinth's Temptation of Saint Anthony. Exotic suggestions of bestiality (as with Salammbo) provided another popular theme. Arthur Wardle's Bacchante cavorts with a whole herd of amorous leopards, and Frederick Stuart Church's Enchantress strolls through the wilderness with two tigers "whose growling jaws suggested the vagina dentata which turn...
...Senate candidate Ed Zschau piggybacks on the popularity of Bartles & Jaymes cooler commercials by featuring two good ol' boys sitting on a front porch musing about the number of floor votes missed by Incumbent Democrat Alan Cranston. "Three hundred forty-seven of them," the ad tells us. Says one codger: "If a 16-year-old did that, he'd still be in the third grade...
...characteristic of Berger to endow some of his most unappealing characters with vitality and strength. Rev is a paranoid crank but the only person in the book to take heroic action. To keep matters consistently bizarre, Berger describes the codger's funeral through the eyes of Junior, the teen-age lout: "As he watched the bronze box being lowered into the grave he could not help thinking of that little ditty that went: Your eyes fall in/ Your teeth fall out/ The worms crawl over/ Your nose and mouth. Dying was a lousy thing, and he intended to avoid...
...said anything brilliant or gave any sign of being set to "break from the pack," as one candidate aptly put it. The most constructive input came from two candidates who clarified once and for all that they will not do so. City Councilor Frederick C. Langone, a crusty old codger who specializes in down-home wisdom and speaks to everybody as if he were their grandfather, clinched the James Watt Hole-in-the-Foot award by telling one of the students in the audience to "come back to me after you've survived a rape," to discuss women's issues...