Word: elderly
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...filtered through the textures of separate memories. One of them belongs to Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's longtime fictional impersonation, who as a high school student had been befriended and bedazzled by Ira at the peak of his glory. The other narrative voice is that of Murray Ringold, Ira's elder brother and Nathan's long-ago high school English teacher. Now 90, Murray meets Nathan again and decides to talk about a troubled past: "I'm the only person still living who knows Ira's story, you're the only person still living who cares about it." Murray laughs...
Much in the same way as his son, the elder Tahmili started low, as a custodian in a bakery. He moved up to chief baker, eventually buying and running his own store...
Late last month, the Swiss-based Anne Frank Fonds (foundation), which holds the rights to all of Frank's writings, threatened to sue the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool after it ran previously unpublished pages from Anne's diary about the elder Franks' relationship. The paper would not divulge the source of its story. But the prime suspect is Cor Suijk, a senior official at the Anne Frank Center in New York City and a source for German journalist Melissa Muller's new and well-timed biography Anne Frank (Metropolitan Books; 330 pages...
...doesn't matter very much that the plot is an unlikely stretch of the imagination. It also doesn't matter much that Private Ryan, played by Matt Damon, appears too late in the film to develop as a character, thus making the story's framing device--an elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns...
DIED. BENNY WATERS, 96, jazz's ebullient elder statesman who toured with and taught some of the genre's greats; in Columbia, Md. A saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger, Waters was playing jazz before jazz was officially created. In the '20s and '30s he played nightclubs in New York City's Harlem with Benny Carter, among others, and was a member of the house band at the Apollo Theatre; but partly because of his legendary carousing, he never achieved the fame enjoyed by many of his colleagues. Blind from failed cataract surgery since 1992, he continued his hectic international touring schedule...