Word: codger
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ever seen.“Well, I’m sorry,” I said in a real acute whisper.“No you’re not,” he shot back. Then he immediately went back to singing. The insolent codger!I flushed with shame as I was thrust from the pew. Of course I couldn’t challenge his abuse now that I stood in plain sight of every parishioner (yet again!). So, what could I do but offer him a winsome smirk—a way of saying to everyone else...
...Pirates III can be said to have an emotional center - oops, sorry, how did that bit of middlebrow critical jargon worm its way into this context? - it has to do with father figures. They come and they go, causing a good deal of consternation among their offspring. The codger most appreciated by the audience is Keith Richards, well known to be Depp's inspiration for his character. He appears here as Jack Sparrow's old man, and he got a relieved round of applause at the screening I attended. Up to then the audience had been pretending to have...
...sure, Short also trots out his expected gallery of TV characters - the nerdy Ed Grimley, the old-codger songwriter Irving Cohen - and an ad-lib segment in which Short's most tiresome character, Jiminy Glick, does an interview with a surprise guest from the audience (Channing Frye of the New York Knicks the night I was there) nearly brings the show to a stop. For that matter, the whole self-referential, show-about-doing-a-show conceit (see The Drowsy Chaperone and off-Broadway's [Title of Show]) is in danger of becoming a clich?...
...acting partnership, a bold place in the fight for racial equality and one of the century's great love affairs. He died on the job, shooting a film called Retirement. But that was a dirty word to Davis, who kept busy in his ninth decade playing a nursing-home codger who believes he's John F. Kennedy ("They dyed me") in the cult comedy Bubba Ho-tep and a judge in Lee's latest film, She Hate Me. In the '60s he spoke at Martin Luther King Jr.'s and Malcolm X's funerals. At the latter, he said...
Well, it was age before beauty as the Ogakor alliance - deprived of yet another chance to collapse on Colby - seemingly pulled itself back together for the stretch run. But while Rodger the Codger took it manfully enough, stoically offering up his old bones to save Elisabeth's decidedly cuter ones, in Week 12 it was "Survivor 2" itself that got dreadfully weepy...