Word: codger
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...guarantee you this: he knows more about your town and what makes it tick than ever will be learned by some young fellow from 500 or 1000 or 2000 miles away that some consultant tells you got good ratings there." In fact, he says, "That slightly tousled codger is going to exude more believability and integrity from the nail on the finger of his left hand than that pompadours, pampered announcer is ever going to muster. And isn't that what our news departments are all about, isn't that what you really want to sell: authority, believability, credibility...
FIGHTING FOR OXYGEN in the jam-packed aisles of the Coop one fine September day, you will curse out loud at the thought of paying $22.50 for a book your professor wrote 15 years ago and still requires for his course. "Cripes," you will mutter, imagining the seedy old codger shuffling into the store that evening and emptying the day's receipts into the pockets of his coffee-stained tweed blazer...
...else is ready for beatification? Some think Robert Penn Warren. Ralph Ellison, for one book, Invisible Man (1952). J B. Priestley? Alberto Moravia? Doris Lessing? Graham Greene? Jorge Luis Borges? The morally imposing Alexander Sofehenitsyn? Yes Certainly Samuel Beckett, the muttering old codger of modernism, who changed the spiritual and theatrical décor of the 20th century...
Ratso Rizzo, the crippled hustler of Midnight Cowboy. The grizzled old codger of Little Big Man. The myopic counterfeiter of Papillon. The eager virgin of The Graduate. Carl Bernstein of All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman has played them all in a career of dazzling virtuosity. But in Kramer vs. Kramer, he has assumed perhaps the most difficult persona of all: Dustin Hoffman...
...Found-Land is in some ways even more of a trifle than Dirty Linen--it's essentially two monologues, one delivered by a senile minister about his youthful meeting with Lloyd George, the other by a young civil servant about his dreams of America. John Straub as Bernard, the codger, steals the show with simple, somnolent nods of his head--a note of comic understatement other members of BARC could learn from...