Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the elder President Roosevelt set a fine tradition for flip-flopping himself. Upon retiring from the presidency in 1908, TR professed to have lost interest in the white House...
...Natty Bumppo and his two Mohican companions, Chingachgook and Uncas, help an English officer, Duncan, escort two young maidens through the wilderness during the French and Indian War. In the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, romance blossoms between the officer and the younger woman, and between Uncas and the elder. To avoid shocking his readers with miscegenation, Cooper gave the elder just the tiniest trace of Black blood. This racist attitude so shocked our modern screenwriters that they decided to make make Natty the romantic lead instead of Uncas. So the central romance is now white-on-white...
...elder DiCenso said he and his partner have several reservations they must resolve before making a final decision on a delivery service...
...Lewis plays the character as if he were entirely unaware of the heroic line that derives from Hawkeye. This innocence leaves open the interesting possibility that, not knowing any better, he might implode under pressure instead of exploding into more predictable action. Conversely, Madeleine Stowe, playing the commandant's elder daughter, for whom earlier versions of Hawkeye have had only a distant admiration, invests her character with a sureness about her needs and a moral courage that is very much up to date. Mann rewards them with actual sexual contact, quietly yet fiercely staged, that is a wonderful, even startling...
...older woman gently presses them shut. The boy came from the village of Malwuen, 34 miles away, where both parents and eight of his brothers and sisters succumbed to starvation in the past six months. Four days ago, he set out for Bardera with his last sibling, an elder brother, who now rocks quietly weeping by his side...