Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week had an overarching specialness in that it came on the same afternoon as his golf-pro dad's first win on the Senior Tour. His relationship with his father Bob has had its ups and downs, all of them traceable to late 1980, when David's elder brother Brent was found to have a rare blood disorder, aplastic anemia. David donated bone marrow, but Brent died soon after of graft-vs.-host disease. Nine-year-old David wondered if he had contributed to his brother's death and became a subdued, serious child...
...former employee Anthony from the apartment in which he'd been living since 1987. Anthony, who worked for Penthouse's parent company until 1997, claims his Manhattan loft was a gift from his father for graduating from Harvard and joining the family business. But a judge backed Guccione the elder, saying the apartment's stock certificate had never been transferred to Anthony and he had no legal claim to it. Looks as if Guccione pere, who is also estranged from his other son, Bob Jr., will be spending Father's Day alone this year...
NAME: Rosa ("Bus-ta") Parks OCCUPATION: Civil rights elder stateswoman AGE: 85 BEST PUNCH: Claims OutKast exploited her by using her name without permission for a song titled Rosa Parks. Though her name was used only for the song's title, not its lyrics, Parks is asking for it to be removed from all OutKast products...
...restless, the men and women who were most frustrated with President Bush's do-nothing approach to domestic policy. In the Bush White House, they were known as the Underground, the muscular and instinctive politicians who were more libertarian and diverse than the milkmen on whom the elder Bush relied. And they chafed during the late 1980s and early 1990s as the Republican Party alienated women and minorities. "This is the revenge of the deputies," says a veteran Bush aide. "These are the idealists who wanted to do more...
...point, Chase recalls, Tony was supposed to be angry at his nephew-employee, and the scene called for the elder Soprano to give the younger a light slap. Gandolfini thought it would be truer to have Tony go for his throat. "That taught me a lot about my character," Chase reflects. "It helped keep me honest...