Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decline was subtle: not the incendiary self-destruction of a Pryor -- no drug overdose for Eddie, not even a sex scandal -- just the makings of the sour dissolution of the elder Elvis, a star Murphy much admired. He put on weight and acted like a jerk. Cockiness shaded into arrogance. He seemed to guest-star in his own films (Harlem Nights, Another 48 HRS.), touring them with the grudging ennui of a celebrity at a Kiwanis gig somebody had booked for him. The star was now as remote as Alpha Centauri. A squadron of bodyguards kept him cocooned in satiety...
...foreign-service officer, Greg, 38, spent parts of his boyhood in New Delhi, the Philippines and Saigon, where his father Barry was chief spokesman for the U.S. embassy for 4 1/2 years during the Vietnam War. Greg became a member of TIME's extended family at 15 when the elder Zorthian joined Time Inc., first as a broadcasting executive and then as vice president for government affairs...
...enforcement officials in Texas called for a boycott of Time Warner, the parent company of his record label, Sire (and of TIME) because of one of his recent tracks, Cop Killer ("I'm 'bout to bust some shots off/ I'm 'bout to dust some cops off"). Said Doug Elder, president of the Houston Police Officers Association: "You mix this with the summer, the violence and a little drugs, and they are going to unleash a reign of terror on communities all across this country...
...also worked on the lightingcrew for three shows and directed a Nigerian play.As president of the Harvard African StudentsAssociation, he brought African guests to Harvardand organized an Africa Week, with speakers,music, food, and dances. He told African folktalesat Cultural Rhythms. (He did not learn the talefrom an elder back home during a smoky ritual,though. "I cheated," he says. "I found a book offolktales in narrative form in the stacks ofWidener...
...never gave up once," said Marylandsophomore Betsy Elder. "We knew we could...